Poverty in Indonesia 1984-2002: The impact of growth and changes in inequality

Type Journal Article - Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
Title Poverty in Indonesia 1984-2002: The impact of growth and changes in inequality
Author(s)
Volume 46
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2010
Page numbers 79-97
URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00074911003642252#.VF_2rfmsWOM
Abstract
This paper examines the growth elasticity of poverty across three development episodes in Indonesia between 1984 and 2002, after controlling for inequality. It relies on estimation of panel data from the National Socio-Economic Survey conducted by the central statistics agency. Contrary to expectations, the growth elasticity of poverty was virtually indistinguishable across the three development episodes – a period of far-reaching policy liberalisation (1984–90); a second period of slower liberalisation (1990–96); and the period of recovery from the Asian financial crisis (1999–2002). Growth was pro-poor in all three periods, while the impact of growth on poverty was either augmented or offset by changes in inequality, depending on the period. Only during the first liberalisation period did a reduction in inequality serve to augment the impact of growth on poverty.

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