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 …

This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in … India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues : employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …

measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are … examined for 11 countries, with a major focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC), India, and Indonesia, which are … growth. India has been relatively stagnant. Indonesia has grown rapidly after suffering an initial set back from the Asian …

Ten years after the crisis, Indonesia is still struggling to solve the problems in four major issues : economic …

Most of the unemployed in Indonesia are young and inexperienced, still live with their parents, and have at least 12 … urban, rural, and national employment using a provincial level panel dataset. We find that increasing employment in rural … and urban areas indeed requires different strategies. Services growth has the highest elasticity of employment in urban …

We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge …, to circumvent data issues that plague earnings data in developing countries, we use chronic poverty status as a long …-term parental welfare measure. We find there is a substantial intergenerational mobility away from poverty among children from poor …