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Assessing the Impact of Indonesian Social Safety Net Programs on Household Welfare and Poverty Dynamics

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Sudarno Sumarto (SMERU Research Institute)
Asep Suryahadi (SMERU Research Institute)
Wenefrida Widyanti (SMERU Research Institute)

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Abstract

In early 1998 the Government of Indonesia established several social safety net (SSN) programs to help the poor and the newly poor cope with the impact of the impending economic crisis, covering food security, employment creation, education, health, and community empowerment. This article evaluates the impact of these programs on household welfare and poverty, utilizing a panel data set of over 10 thousand households which were visited four times in a 14 month period. The impact of participation in the social safety net programs on household consumption is found to be generally positive. However, only the subsidized rice program appears to have significantly reduced the risk of poverty among participating households.

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Paper provided by East Asian Bureau of Economic Research in its series Development Economics Working Papers with number 108.

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Date of creation: Aug 2004
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Keywords: safety net programs; poverty dynamics; Indonesia; program evaluation;

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I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare
I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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