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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty in Indonesia

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  Social protection index to help improve poverty reduction programmes

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Policymakers and donors are increasingly viewing social protection as an important tool for poverty reduction to achieve the Millennium Goals by 2015.  However, the discussion so far has focused on definitions and objectives of social protection. Very little information is available on the quantitative aspects beyond broad estimates of its costs.
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  From access to income: regional and ethnic inequality in Indonesia

  SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2006

  This study is an investigation of regional and ethnic inequality in Indonesia.
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  Social protection in the informal economy: home-based women workers and outsourced manufacturing in Asia

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002

  This paper draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines) where home-based work (HBW) is widespread. It examines characteristics of home workers and, in particular, conditions of women as home workers.
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  Predicting consumption poverty using non-consumption indicators: experiments using Indonesian data

  SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2006

  The most widely used data for measuring welfare or poverty is household consumption expenditure, especially in developing countries where household income data is considered more difficult to collect and less accurate. This method is not, however, without its own problems.
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  A place to stay, a place to live: challenges in providing shelter in India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka after the tsunami

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper examines post-tsunami reconstruction in terms of providing shelter in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. It looks at what has been achieved so far, what has still to happen, and suggests what should be done better.The main findings highlighted in this report include:humanitarian agencies lacked the know-how and expertise to lead a mass building exercise.
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  What happened to child labour in Indonesia during the economic crisis: the trade-off between school and work

  SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2005

  Although lower than other developing countries at a similar stage of development, the problem of child labour in Indonesia is significant. Child labour perpetuates poverty. The link between current child labour and future poverty appears to be a lack of adequate and appropriate education.
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  A reassessment of inequality and its role in poverty reduction in Indonesia

  SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2005

  Whilst economic growth is essential for the development of a country, the quality of growth - for instance who benefits from it, whether it is equally distributed and whether is helps the poor escape poverty, is also important. Before the onset of the economic crisis in 1997, Indonesia experienced high economic growth.
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  Is trade in virtual water a solution for water-scarce countries?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Few people realise that we ‘eat’ between 2,000 and 5,000 litres of water per day, depending on our diet. To grow a kilogram of wheat takes between 500 and 4,000 litres of water; a kilogram of beef requires around 10,000 litres.
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  Knowledge generation for poverty reduction within donor organizations

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2005

  Effective poverty reduction relies on knowledge of poverty and poverty reduction. It also depends on the kinds of knowledge that emerge from, and inform, the activities of donor organisations. This paper draws upon evidence from the World Bank's programme in Indonesia to illustrate this point.
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  Southeast Asia Human Development Report 2005

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  This report links the concepts of human development, regional economic integration and regional cooperation. It argues that the high level of disparity among countries within South East Asia can be attributed to variations in human resource development and differences in the quality of governance.

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