Jurnal Ekonomi dan Pendidikan
Vol 19, No 1 (2022)

DOES COVID-19 EXACERBATE POVERTY RATE IN INDONESIA?

Birgitta Dian Saraswati (Satya Wacana Christian University)
Fajar Setiawan (Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana)
Virgiana Nugransih Siwi (Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Nov 2022

Abstract

Poverty is still the focus of the Indonesian government. The Covid-19 pandemic has the potential to increase the number of poor people. Therefore, this study aims to examine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and macroeconomic factors of inflation, economic growth and unemployment on poverty in 34 provinces in Indonesia. Using the Random Effect Model, we find that unemployment significantly affects poverty in Indonesia. while inflation and economic growth have no significant effect on poverty. In addition, this study proves that the provinces of Java and Bali, which are the areas with the highest number of Covid-19 exposures in Indonesia, have a higher poverty rate than other provinces. Therefore, vaccination is the right policy so that people can carry out normal activities and economic activities will resume running and people's incomes can incre

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Journal Info

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jep

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Subject

Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Environmental Science Social Sciences

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Jurnal Ekonomi dan Pendidikan (JEP) merupakan jurnal yang diterbitkan Jurusan Pendidikan Ekonomi Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta yang memuat artikel/naskah berupa hasil pemikiran, analisis ilmiah, kajian teori, atau hasil penelitian dalam bidang ekonomi atau ...