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Towards a Healthy Indonesia?

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  • Anne Booth
  • Raden Muhamad Purnagunawan
  • Elan Satriawan

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During his first presidential term, Joko Widodo increased expenditure on, and the coverage of, several social protection policies, including the conditional cash transfer program. These policies began in the aftermath of the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis and have proliferated in recent years. This Survey will examine these policies, paying particular attention to implementation problems, including effective targeting through the construction of a unified database. It will also examine both food policy and broader health policy issues. It is widely agreed that health problems, such as those relating to early childhood development, must be addressed in Indonesia in a wider context, including through the provision of clean water and sanitation facilities, food security, and social assistance. The Survey will also examine recent discussions of trends in inequality and poverty, several of which claim that inequality has been increasing. Using recent figures published by Statistics Indonesia, it is argued that expenditure inequality has in fact been trending downward in recent years.

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  • Anne Booth & Raden Muhamad Purnagunawan & Elan Satriawan, 2019. "Towards a Healthy Indonesia?," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(2), pages 133-155, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bindes:v:55:y:2019:i:2:p:133-155
    DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2019.1639509
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