Economic growth and poverty alleviation in Indonesia
Timmer, C.P.
Research in domestic and international agribusiness management 12: 205-234
1996
Document Number: 419968
Reducing poverty involves three dimensions, two short run and one long run. The short run issues address ways to increase the welfare level of the poor through direct provision of goods and services and mechanisms to stabilize the intake levels of the poor, especially food intake, when prices and incomes change. The long run issue addresses the growth and sustainability of the economic base which finances these improvements, both at the household and the national level. Models and empirical evidence are presented to argue that agriculture plays an especially important role in integrating the short run and long run dimensions of poverty alleviation in the context of a strategy for economic growth. The analytical issues behind economic growth and poverty alleviation are discussed, and economic growth and poverty alleviation are considered in a comparative perspective. The specific case of agriculture and poverty alleviation in Indonesia is explored covering: the role of agriculture in an historical perspective; agriculture and the structural transformation; and a province level analysis of economic growth, poverty and food consumption (26 provinces).