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Poverty is a fundamental problem and becomes an important international agenda as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Various poverty reduction programs have become the main concern of national and regional development in Indonesia. Local government is in the most ideal position to be able to identify people living in poverty more closely, and provide resources and services to help them free from poverty. This study intends to examine, analyze and describe the effect of the use of regional expenditure funds sourced from the Local Revenue to poverty rate in the Regency/City in Southeast Sulawesi. Using the least square panel method, the results show that the Local Revenue has a significant negative effect on poverty rate.

This article aims to discuss the current research trends on the tourism destination competitiveness. This research is sistemic literature review by using Publish or Perish software for data mining and VOSviewer for data analysis and visualization. The results indicate 4 research cluster themes on tourism destination competitiveness and 5 research clusters related to tourism destination competitiveness. The main cited articles on tourism destination competitiveness for period of 2005-2020 are Larry Dwyer, Chulwo Kim, Tanja Mihalic, Tanja Amenski, Vanja Dragineva, and Ugljesa Stankov. Based on the research findings, we state that the research gaps in the tourism destination competitiveness are still wide open, particularly in Indonesia.

This study is aimed at analyzing wage disparity based on socio-demographic characteristics, education, work experience, and types of work, as well as the use of income in the labor households’ economy. The survey method was used for the research with a proportional sampling of 300 respondents. in Makassar City. Data analysis was performed by multiple linear regressions. The results of this study indicated a gender-based and education-based wage disparity. However, this study did not reveal a disparity in terms of marital status. Work experience was not a significant factor for determining wages. The lowest-paying jobs were for market employees, followed by dock workers, construction workers, and shop employees, and with public transit employees receiving the highest wages. Simultaneously, the findings of this study revealed relative disparities in labor costs in Makassar City. The consumption pattern of labor households was also dominated by expenditure for food consumption (65.51%), which indicates that labor households were relatively poor. However, they tried to save about 32.56% of their total household income each month.

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