Twenty Years of Expenditure Inequality in Indonesia, 1993–2013

Bibliographic Data

ID8416129
AuthorsArief Anshory Yusuf (0000-0002-3126-3853, Padjadjaran University), Andy Sumner (0000-0002-8995-7065, King's College London), Irlan Adiyatma Rum (0000-0003-0301-4953, Padjadjaran University)
Year2014
Volume50
Issue2
Pages243-254
Publication date2014-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-4918 • E-ISSN: 1472-7234
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00074918.2014.939937
OpenAlexW2154985005
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited21

In this article, we consider the recent increase in inequality in Indonesia. We make new, consistent estimates of expenditure inequality for 1993-2013, using several measures that draw on household expenditure data from the National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) for 1993-2013. In doing so, we note that the central statistics agency, Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), used grouped data for its estimates of inequality until 2009 and that this underestimated inequality up to then. Thus the rise in inequality reported since 2009 actually has a longer history. We argue that Indonesia experienced divergence and convergence at the same time: the magnitude of the rise in inequality was significant (divergence), but the rise was greatest in provinces or districts with low initial levels of inequality (convergence). We consider the literature on drivers of changes in inequality and identify a set of hypotheses, with an empirical basis, which we introduce as potential Indonesian-specific drivers of rising inequality for future exploration

Convergence (economics) · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Indonesian · Inequality · Sociology · Statistics · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics · Taxation and Compliance Studies

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