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Revisiting the Impact of Consumption Growth and Inequality on Poverty in Indonesia during Decentralisation

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  • Riyana Miranti
  • Alan Duncan
  • Rebecca Cassells

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This article analyses the consumption growth elasticity and inequality elasticity of poverty in Indonesia, with a particular focus on the decentralisation period. Using provincial panel data, we show that the effectiveness of growth in alleviating poverty across provinces was greater during decentralisation-that is, between 2002 and 2010-than at any other point since 1984. The growth elasticity of poverty since 2002 is estimated to have been -2.46, which means that a 10% increase in average consumption per capita would have reduced the poverty rate by almost 25%. However, we also find that rising income inequality negated a quarter to a third of the 5.7-percentage-point reduction in the headcount poverty rate. This increasing inequality has contributed to a lower level of pro-poor growth than that maintained in Indonesia before decentralisation.

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  • Riyana Miranti & Alan Duncan & Rebecca Cassells, 2014. "Revisiting the Impact of Consumption Growth and Inequality on Poverty in Indonesia during Decentralisation," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(3), pages 461-482, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bindes:v:50:y:2014:i:3:p:461-482
    DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2014.980377
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    1. Takahiro Akita & Sachiko Miyata, 2020. "Assessing Pro-poorness of Regional Economic Growth: Evidence from Indonesia, 2004-2014," Working Papers EMS_2020_03, Research Institute, International University of Japan.

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