This paper assesses the effect of public and private sector growth on poverty in Indonesia. We use fixed capital … find that growth in both sectors significantly reduces poverty; moreover, they have the same elasticity. Therefore, growth … in both public and private sector spending will reduce poverty twice as fast as just relying on public spending. The …

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 …

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 …

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …

This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing … while heterogeneity was addressed by employing the Quantile Regression technique. Also, the FIES data on remittances was … corrected by excluding the investment and pension components from the original remittance data used by past studies to arrive at …

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …

Several studies on the impact of international migration and remittances on household outcomes have been released …