Growth, Growth Accelerations, and the Poor: Lessons from Indonesia

Sambit Bhattacharyya and Budy Resosudarmo

World Development, 2015, vol. 66, issue C, 154-165

Abstract: We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset covering 26 provinces over the period 1977–2010. This dataset allows us to distinguish between mining and non-mining in Indonesia. Growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall growth and growth in mining appears to have no effect on the same. Growth acceleration in non-mining reduces poverty and inequality whereas the same in mining increases poverty. We expect that the degree of forward and backward linkages of mining and non-mining sectors explains the asymmetric result.

Keywords: growth; growth accelerations; mining; non-mining; poverty; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.08.009

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