This paper argues that recent increases in international food prices worsened poverty incidence in Indonesia, even … permanently increasing both rice prices and poverty incidence. …

higher productivity sectors. TFP at the sectoral level has been important only in agriculture. Poverty has declined … remarkably over time despite a long-term increase in income inequality. The short-term rate of decline in poverty incidence has …

The relationship between poverty incidence and road development is analyzed in this paper, in the context of rural Laos …. The results indicate that improving road access is an effective way of reducing rural poverty. Between 1997-98 and 2002 …-03, rural poverty incidence in Laos declined by 9.5 per cent. The results suggest that about 13 per cent of this decline can be …

Spikes in international food prices in 2007-2008 worsened poverty incidence in Indonesia, both rural and urban, but … internal rice market from the temporary world price increases, muting the increase in poverty. But it did this only by imposing … large and permanent increases in both domestic rice prices and poverty incidence. Poverty incidence increased more among …

staple, rice, is a core objective of economic policy. Poverty reduction is also a core policy objective. Since the 1970s …-offs between the goals of self-sufficiency and poverty reduction when two alternative means are used to achieve them: a fertilizer … of its effects on poverty, a fertilizer subsidy can be a more effective instrument for achieving the goal of rice self …

equilibrium model of the Indonesian economy to analyze the effects of an import ban on rice, including its effects on poverty. The … analysis recognizes 1,000 individual households. The results indicate that the rice import ban raises poverty incidence by a … little less than one per cent of the population. Poverty rises in both rural and urban areas. Among farmers, only the richest …