This study focuses on the efficiency of minimum wage policy for poverty reduction, taking Indonesia as a case study. A … findings suggest that minimum wages are unlikely to be an effective antipoverty instrument, at least for Indonesia. …

We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset … the economy. We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall growth … and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality. We also identify growth acceleration episodes …

provide rice and wheat through about half a million “fair price shops” to low income (below the poverty line-BPL) consumers at …

Social protection cash transfers are a vital policy instrument in tackling poverty, and provide an affordable, broad … poverty relief or improved economic security. Here, we examine the design and poverty impact of the primary cash transfer …-Leste's level of social protection expenditure is high by international standards, the overall poverty impact is incommensurate with …

more cost-effective poverty reduction. In an important and influential study, Ravallion (2009) shows that targeting … in relation to poverty alleviation programs. The lack of a correlation between targeting and cost-effectiveness in … confirm that the targeting and poverty performance of different programs, or even the same program, implemented across …

This paper studies the variation in village head selection rules across Indonesia using panel data over 1997–2007. The …

Indonesia experienced growing shortfalls of food supplies during the 1950s and during the 1960s and 1970s it imported … increasing amounts of rice, wheat and wheat flour. This paper investigates the role of food aid in this development. In the 1950s,Indonesia … supply food aid as grants,Indonesia did not request such food aid until 1966. Donations of wheat flour, rice and other food …

Employment generation has been a challenge in Indonesia since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), especially in labor …

longitudinal dataset on Indonesia, we find strong negative effects of child labor on the growth of both numeracy and cognitive …