Economic Journal of Emerging Markets
Volume 1 Issue 3, 2009

Economics Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Central Java

Pramono Hariadi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Sep 2011

Abstract

Among the central issues in policy making are poverty alleviation and increasing income distribution.This paper measures the impact of economic growth on income inequality and poverty alleviation,namely whether income inequality becomes trade-off for poverty alleviation in 35 CentralJava regencies. The paper uses fixed effect model by weighting cross section weights. The resultsshow that economic growth increases income inequality. Furthermore, economic growth alleviatespoverty and increases income inequality, but the effect is smaller than the reduction in poverty.Therefore, the increased income inequality is not a trade off to poverty alleviation and the economicgrowth is effective to alleviate poverty.Keywords: Economic growth, income inequality, poverty alleviation

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JEP

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

The Economic Journal of Emerging Markets (EJEM) is a peer-reviewed journal which provides a forum for scientific works pertaining to emerging market economies. Published every April and October, this journal welcomes original research papers on all aspects of economic development issues. The journal ...