Indonesia's Unified Database (UDB) contains the names, addresses and socioeconomic data for approximately 24.7 million Indonesian households – some 96.4 million of Indonesia’s poorest – and plays a significant role in efforts to improve the targeting of...
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In this paper we investigate how the receipt of educational transfers, scholarships and related assistance programmes affects the labour supply of children and the marginal spending behaviour of households on children’s educational goods. We use a nationally...
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In 2007 the Government of Indonesia launched the Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH), the first conditional cash transfer programme in Indonesia. The programme seeks to improve the quality of human capital by providing cash transfers conditional on households...
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Traditional poverty measures fail to indicate the degree of risk of becoming or remaining poor that households are confronted to. They can therefore be misleading in the context of implementing poverty reduction policies. In this paper I propose a method to...
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Proxy-means testing (PMT) is a method used to assess household or individual welfare level based on a set of observable indicators. The accuracy, and therefore usefulness of PMT relies on the selection of indicators that produce accurate predictions of...
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Raskin – the Rice for the Poor Programme – has been implemented since 2002 and evolved from OPK (operasi pasar khusus or market operation for the sale of subsidised rice), a cross-sectoral national rice subsidy programme imple- mented in 1998. Rice subsidies...
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