How Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Indonesia, 1984-99
Published By: UNU-WIDER on eSS | Published Date: August, 11 , 2003This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop
successive poverty profiles for Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high
growth followed by rapid contraction. Adopting a ‘cost-of-basic-needs’ approach to
poverty determination (an approach particularly suited to measures of absolute poverty),
this paper develops price indices and calculates poverty lines from unit value data, an
often neglected source of information. [Discussion Paper No. 2003/57]
Author(s): Jed Friedman | Posted on: Nov 11, 2010 | Views(697) | Download (686)