Poverty Reduction & Campaign Promises

June 8, 2004

 Yuli Ismartono
Executive Editor, TEMPO English edition.

 

THE call to scale up poverty reduction at the closing of the World Bank-sponsored conference in Shanghai a few days ago coincided with the start of the presidential campaign in Indonesia, with all five candidates vowing to create more jobs and push for economic growth. They are noble and ambitious declarations, but weve heard them so often before that we are compelled to ask the


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