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The assessment of the importance of agricultural growth for poverty reduction in Indonesia
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- Issue Date
- 2009-07
- Citation
- Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol.22 No.3, pp. 341-373
- Keywords
- Green revolution ; Agricultural growth ; Poverty reduction ; Poor households
- Abstract
- Although poverty is generally recognized as a highly multidimensional
phenomenon, in the Indonesian context, poverty has
been mainly an agricultural or a rural phenomenon. This has of
course an important policy implication for poverty reduction in
Indonesia. This paper examines the importance of agricultural
growth for poverty reduction in Indonesia. It shows that: (i)
agriculture is still the biggest employment-generating sector; (ii)
the vast majority of poor families are in agriculture, consisting
mainly of the marginal farmers and agricultural laborers; (iii)
poverty in agriculture is caused by many factors, including lack or
unequal distribution of land, and lack of capital; (iv) growth in
gross domestic product (GDP) has an impact on poverty reduction;
and (v) the decomposition of changes in poverty by sector shows
that the output growth in agriculture appears to have the greater
effect on the change in poverty than that in manufacturing, though
it is lower than that in services.
- ISSN
- 1225-0279
- Language
- English
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