 Twenty Years of Expenditure Inequality in Indonesia, 1993-2013Arief Yusuf, Andy Sumner and Irlan Adiyatma Rum Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 2014, vol. 50, issue 2, 243-254 Abstract: In this article, we consider the recent increase in inequality in Indonesia. We make new, consistent estimates of expenditure inequality for 1993-2013, using several measures that draw on household expenditure data from the National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) for 1993-2013. In doing so, we note that the central statistics agency, Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), used grouped data for its estimates of inequality until 2009 and that this underestimated inequality up to then. Thus the rise in inequality reported since 2009 actually has a longer history. We argue that Indonesia experienced divergence and convergence at the same time: the magnitude of the rise in inequality was significant (divergence), but the rise was greatest in provinces or districts with low initial levels of inequality (convergence). We consider the literature on drivers of changes in inequality and identify a set of hypotheses, with an empirical basis, which we introduce as potential Indonesian-specific drivers of rising inequality for future exploration. Date: 2014 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:bindes:v:50:y:2014:i:2:p:243-254 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2014.939937 Access Statistics for this article Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies is currently edited by Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra, Arianto Patunru, Robert Sparrow, Sarah Xue Dong and Sean Muir More articles in Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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