This paper proposes a new type of growth rate, called the “poverty equivalent growth rate” (PEGR), which takes into account both the growth rate in mean income and how the benefits of growth are distributed between the poor and the non-poor. The proposed measure satisfies a basic requirement that the proportional reduction in poverty is a monotonically increasing function of the PEGR. Thus, max...

The Poverty percentage in Central Java ranked two throughout Island after DI Yogyakarta Province. It surely causes gaps and inequality between regions This study attempted to analyze the effects of fiscal decentralization, balance fund, economic growth on poverty 35 regencies/ cities Province within 2016-2020. By using a quantitative approach, this used panel analysis with Fixed Effect Model (F...

n The poor are more suburbanized in metropolitan areas with greater employment decentralization. Overall, the poor are generally less likely to live in suburbs than the non-poor (55.8 percent versus 70.9 percent). Metropolitan areas with both high suburbanization of poverty and job sprawl are somewhat larger and lie mostly in the South and West, including Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle,...

Increases in income inequality have been associated with worsening political polarisation and disenchantment systems (Winkler, 2019). The global economic situation following the COVID-19 pandemic Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has resulted high inflation sharp increases energy food prices, which disproportionately affect low-income vulnerable households could long-lasting impacts on...

This paper analyzes the decentralization of decision-making in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential recipients compete in hierarchal contests for funds. The paper investigates whether, under certain reasonable conditions, fashionable aid procedures will lead ...

Law Number 6 of 2014 on villages has been ratified due to the persistent poverty suffered by village community. Through financial decentralization (Village Fund Program) as regulated in law, reduction policies are expected be applied lowest level government. This study aims evaluate contribution Village reducing poverty. Therefore, this is important not only assess how deepening process works b...