This paper takes a fresh look, from a macro perspective, at the issue of aid effectiveness and adopts poverty reduction, as contrasted from economic growth, as the metric for measuring aid effectiveness.
This paper examines the key determinants of poverty reduction in Indonesia during the 1990s and uses district-level data to analyze the basic growth–poverty relationship.
This paper aims to revive the discussion about two practical issues of poverty line estimation; specificity or relevance and consistency or comparability
This article argues that the decline in the incidence of poverty in Indonesia during the past two decades, as shown by the official estimates, is statistically as well as practically significant.
This briefing note aims to highlights some of the data and measurement issues that the Bank will have to consider in formulating and implementing its poverty reduction strategy.
This note demonstrates empirically the importance of urban–rural price differences and inflation figures in poverty analysis in Indonesia.