It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or … both concepts in the decade of the 1990’s; Indonesia, on the contrary, displays decreasing inequality in both from the …

Indonesia. In the other hand, the role of the NGOs in Indonesia is still important in order to gain the social empowerment for …

Low access to formal credit persists in most of developing economies also in Indonesia. Most of households especially … issue since the promotion of formal credit facilities in rural areas is argued as an important policy in reducing poverty …

This paper provides new evidence on the effects of bank capital requirements in Indonesia. In investigating the impact … crucial in Indonesia. Overall, the results suggest that regulatory capital takes part in the change of Indonesian banks …