Employment, Living Standards and Poverty in Contemporary Indonesia:

Understanding the nexus between employment, living standards and poverty is a major challenge in Indonesia. Trends in poverty are heavily dependent on labour market opportunities and social spending in education and health. The question is how to create opportunities and spend money wisely - a subje...

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Corporate Author: Indonesia Update Conference <2010, Australian National University> (Author)
Other Authors: Manning, Chris (Editor), Sumarto, Sudarno 1960- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2011
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Summary:Understanding the nexus between employment, living standards and poverty is a major challenge in Indonesia. Trends in poverty are heavily dependent on labour market opportunities and social spending in education and health. The question is how to create opportunities and spend money wisely - a subject of intense debate in Indonesia. The government has brought a renewed focus to poverty reduction since the end of the Asian financial crisis, especially under the current president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. This book shows how Indonesia is travelling with regard to employment, social policy and poverty. It identifies promising new directions for strategies to alleviate poverty, some of which are already showing results
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 363 pages)
ISBN:9789814345132

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