How many poor in Indonesia?

January 16, 2007

Vivi Alatas

  • World Bank Senior Economist, Jakarta

    LAST month, the World Bank launched a poverty assessment entitled Making the New Indonesia Work for the Poor and in the past few weeks, several media have featured articles on the issue of poverty. Some of them stressed that according to the World Bank, the number of poor in Indonesia is not just 39.1 million as calculated by the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) data, but almost half of the populat

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