This study focuses on the efficiency of minimum wage policy for poverty reduction, taking Indonesia as a case study. A … findings suggest that minimum wages are unlikely to be an effective antipoverty instrument, at least for Indonesia. …

The paper seeks to quantitatively measure the impact of fiscal policy on income distribution and poverty in Indonesia … income distribution and poverty. Fiscal expansion mainly benefits urban households and non-labour rural households … increases due to their consumption structure. Finally, we find that, in real terms, the Indonesia's taxation system burdens …

poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

We document the evolution of poverty and inequality across Indian states during the recent period of rapid growth (2004 …-09), and examine the role of growth and distribution in reducing poverty. Robust economic growth has been a major driver of … poverty reduction and inclusiveness in India. We explore the role of economic policies and macrofinancial conditions in …

income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to …

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 …