This report documents the results of a pilot project on a new poverty monitoring system that improves the current … system in three areas. First, it involves the locals in monitoring poverty in their own area. Second, the poverty indicators … five months needed between the start of data collection to final publication. Given Indonesia's geographical size and the …

welfare measures such as the poverty headcount rate, collecting such data requires significant time and effort. In this study …, we experiment with three approaches to predict consumption expenditure and poverty at household and aggregate level as … are i) consumption correlates model, ii) poverty probability model, and iii) the wealth index Principal Components …

The government of Indonesia has started the implementation of locally based healthfinancing schemes based on health …-GAKIN pilots, the government has decided to provide JPK-GAKIN in all districts in Indonesia from January 1, 2005. This study looks … problems associated with the scheme, such as : there is a need to improve its targeting and efficiency, it needs stricter …

agriculture sector, the largest contributor to poverty in Indonesia. This implies that the most effective way to accelerate …This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces …

This field verification study is part of the effort to develop small-area poverty maps for all regions in Indonesia …. The small-area poverty maps that contain consumption based poverty estimates at the provincial, district, sub-district and … module, the 2000 Village Survey (PODES) and the 2000 Population Census, using the small-area estimation method (poverty …

inter-generational transmission of poverty. Given this perspective, the paper addresses the question : to what extent has …

targeting. …