Indonesia experienced a rapid reduction in poverty during the strong economic growth pre-crisis period. By estimating … the impact of sectoral economic growth components on consistently measured poverty rates across regions and over time …, this study finds that agricultural growth is the largest factor behind the poverty reduction. Agricultural growth accounts …

Indonesia has made significant progress in reducing poverty, from 23% of the population in 1999 to less than 12% in 2013 … evolution of poverty in a decentralized Indonesia, and relate kabupaten (district) performance in poverty reduction to a wide …This study presents evidence from Indonesia on how the country’s recent periods of economic growth have contributed to …

poverty reduction. Indonesia is a country that has endured bad governance for a long period, but also has sustained … significant poverty reduction. Prior to the onset of the economic crisis in mid 1997, the problem of bad governance in Indonesia …This study is the first attempt to systematically examine the impact of bad governance practices in Indonesia on …

The social impacts of Indonesia’s crisis, while serious, have fortunately been less dramatic than early reports … suggested. Rather than the universal devastation in poverty, employment, education and health so widely predicted and repeated … commodities (large parts of Sulawesi, Sumatra). The new data also show that pre-crisis economic status or poverty rates are not …

have been no studies on the association between trade facilitation and poverty as well as inequality. This paper examines … with poverty, inequality and per capita GDP. Countries with more improvement in trade facilitation are more likely to have … lower poverty and inequality, and higher per capita GDP than other countries with less improvement in trade facilitation. …

An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances … that remittances have significant poverty-alleviating effect, with the poorest of the poor being the least beneficiaries …

several of the goals. But many countries, most especially in Africa, will not. The projections show that poverty will become … more heavily concentrated in Africa in both relative and absolute terms. In addition, whilst urban poverty will increase …, in 2015 poverty will remain a predominately rural phenomenon, with 60-70 per cent of the poor (depending on the measure …

The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and … children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is …