Employment, Living Standards and Poverty in Contemporary Indonesia
Chris Manning · Sudarno Sumarto
Jan 2011 · Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
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363
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About this ebook
Understanding the nexus between employment, living standards and poverty is a major challenge in Indonesia. Trends in poverty are heavily dependent on labour market opportunities and social spending in education and health. The question is how to create opportunities and spend money wisely - a subject of intense debate in Indonesia. The government has brought a renewed focus to poverty reduction since the end of the Asian financial crisis, especially under the current president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. This book shows how Indonesia is travelling with regard to employment, social policy and poverty. It identifies promising new directions for strategies to alleviate poverty, some of which are already showing results.
About the author
• Dr. Chris Manning is Coordinator of a post-graduate program in Population and Human Resources, The Flinders University of South Australia. He is an economist and has worked many years in Indonesia, principally as a research and teaching fellow at the Population Studies Center, Gajah Mada University, Yogjakarta. His publications include several edited books and monographs, and numerous research papers on various aspects of employment and labour markets in Indonesia and dealing with wider regional and national economic development and population issues
• Sudarno Sumarto Policy Advisor, National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K), Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta
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