and policy makers alike. This paper employs data from a nationally representative survey in Indonesia to investigate the … impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a downstream welfare indicator. Consequently, we have constructed a … composite financial literacy index. Our results reveal that financial literacy plays an important role in reducing poverty. This …

Households around the world as well as in Indonesia have become exposed to a wider variety of vulnerabilities and risks … examine the impact of natural disasters on Indonesian household welfare (consumption and poverty) using the Indonesian Family … devastating impacts of disasters and in lessening households’ vulnerability to poverty. The policy recommendations resulting from …

Analysis of livelihood strategies can aid to understand and resolve problems associated with vulnerability to poverty … towards commercialization. They invest and consume more than subsistence farmers. Secondly, there is a greater diversification … highest vulnerability to poverty. The paper additionally highlights some concerns such as a decline in availability of …

lowerskilled wage employment. The incidence of poverty is widespread but differences between the clusters are clearly visible. Even … the better-off households have consumption poverty headcount ratios of between 37 to 50% at PPP $1.25. For households from … the poorest clusters the poverty headcount ratio amounts to even 70% for income and 80% for consumption. Especially the …