This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia's development prospects. This pessimism … Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

evaluate the dynamics of the poverty impact of growth in Indonesia, by comparing the 1993-2000, 2000-07, and 2007-14 growth …The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the …

specifically on the poverty impacts of growth. Considering a cross-sectional perspective for poverty measurement, early …’s treatment of mobility encompasses both the gain of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency …

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting … based on an imperfect poverty classifier based on proxy means tests results in very distinct 'optimal' beneficiary shares …

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 …

In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in histo-ry, in an attempt … to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data … Indonesia's largest social programs, the Raskin (rice for the poor) and the BLSM (temporary unconditional cash transfers …

coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …