Child Malnutrition in Indonesia: Can Education, Sanitation and Healthcare Augment the Role of Income?

Silva, Indunil De; Sumarto, Sudarno

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“…Sumarto and De Silva, in 2015, [41] analyzed the impact of health and education resources on Indonesian economic development and poverty. They noted that while education plays an important role in reducing poverty, schooling has a limited impact on economic growth for developing countries.…”

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Poverty—A Challenge for Economic Development? Evidences from Western Balkan Countries and the European Union

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During the last few decades, economists have tried to find a solution to eradicate poverty, especially since the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals were launched. The target of Goal 1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere. While income inequality and unemployment have played a major part in contributing to poor wellbeing in the world, other factors such as political instability, a lack of good investment opportunities, and living conditions have contributed to it as well. Thus, in this work, the authors analyze the factors that impact poverty and compare these results between countries within the European Union and post-communist countries that include the Western Balkan (WB) countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. The method used consists of both descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis using the fixed effect model where poverty is taken as the dependent variable. The data used in this study are gathered from the World Bank and Legatum Prosperity, during the period between 2009 and 2018. The results show that income inequality does indeed impact the further progress of poverty for both the EU and WB, while economic development in terms of GDP is shown to have a more significant impact on EU than in WB, where the most significant impact was through income per capita. Other factors such as education, investment environment, and especially unemployment also significantly impacted on decreasing the poverty rate in both economic zones.

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Section: Educationmentioning

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“…Moreover, the prevalence of stunting in Indonesia is higher among poorer households (Rachmi, Agho, Li, & Baur, 2016; De Silva & Sumarto, 2018; The World Bank, 2017). The association with living standards might be explained by several factors, including insufficiency of food (both quality and quantity), worse sanitation, unavailability of clean water, difficult access to health care and other health-related behaviors (Torlesse et al, 2016).…”

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“…In Indonesia, whether and to what extent socioeconomic-related inequality in childhood stunting has changed over time and what accounts for that is largely unknown. Available evidence to date (Mani, 2014; Rachmi et al, 2016; De Silva & Sumarto, 2018; Torlesse, Cronin, Sebayang, & Nandy, 2016) has only focused on the trend and the potential determinants of childhood stunting. Better evidence about the change and degree of socioeconomic inequality and its contributing factors may help guide and improve any policies aimed at narrowing this gap.…”

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Explaining the fall of socioeconomic inequality in childhood stunting in Indonesia

Rizal

Doorslaer

2019

SSM - Population Health

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In spite of the enormous economic progress and development witnessed in Indonesia in the last few decades, still more than 30% of Indonesian children under the age of five suffer from stunting, or low height for age. This concern is exacerbated by the fact that stunting remains more concentrated among the poorer households, leading to further intergenerational transmission of poverty and ill health. We examine recent trends in the evolution of the prevalence of childhood stunting and severe stunting, its socioeconomic inequality and the factors that appear to have contributed to these developments. Using the two most recent waves of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), we study the changes in the prevalence of (severe) stunting between 2007 and 2014 for children aged 0–59 months and their socioeconomic-inequality using the Erreygers Concentration Index (EI) and its regression-based decomposition. We find a significant drop in the rate of severe stunting but not in stunting, as well as a significant reduction in the degree of absolute inequality of stunting. A decomposition analysis shows that household wealth, maternal education, institutional delivery, and availability of adequate sanitation contribute most to socioeconomic inequality in under-five stunting. Further analysis of the change in inequality over time indicates that the reduction in the association of wealth with stunting and a substantial improvement of health care access of the poor (as proxied by immunizations and institutional deliveries) play the most important role in narrowing the stunting gap between richer and poorer kids. General economic growth, poverty reduction, and implementation of pro-poor health and social programs during the studied period such as the expansion of health insurance coverage for the poor (Jamkesmas) and Conditional Cash Transfer program ( Program Keluarga Harapan, PKH ) are some plausible explanations of the observed result.

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“…Despite its sustained economic growth and laudable efforts in reducing poverty, child malnutrition and associated stunting rates were surprisingly high even among the wealthiest households. Eight million children under five in Indonesia are stunted, showing how slow they had been in addressing child malnutrition (De Silva & Sumarto, 2018). Although addressing malnutrition in Kalimantan is beyond the scope of this paper, its findings can, however, aid in developing agroforestry schemes and conservation projects in line with nutrition programs to alleviate malnutrition in the region.…”

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Can Underutilized Tropical Fruits Meet the Nutritional Requirements of Rural Indonesia?

Ravindran

Jones

Rayment

2021

IJIAS

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Tropical fruits form a potential source of micronutrients. However, a lot of these fruit species remain underutilized in developing countries. This study explores the potential of underutilized tropical fruits in Kalimantan, Indonesia, in meeting the micro-nutrient requirements of its populace. The study employs focus group discussions and a systematic literature search and review process to gather data.79% of the species studied were profuse in at least one essential micronutrient, and 53% of the species contain at least one micronutrient of priority concern in high concentration. No nutritional information was available for 26% of the reviewed species, and 40% of the species for which information is available in the literature lacked data on at least one priority micro-nutrient. Simultaneous fruiting of priority micro-nutrient rich species occurring in the different agroecosystems of Kalimantan, namely limbo gardens, homesteads, and forests, corroborates the importance of landscape diversity in meeting the year-round nutritional needs of its people. Given how the Covid19 pandemic has impacted people's food security, it is essential to address these knowledge gaps to aid the ongoing efforts to reshape our food systems in the future.

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Child Malnutrition in Indonesia: Can Education, Sanitation and Healthcare Augment the Role of Income?

Cited by 58 publications

References 54 publications

Poverty—A Challenge for Economic Development? Evidences from Western Balkan Countries and the European Union

Poverty—A Challenge for Economic Development? Evidences from Western Balkan Countries and the European Union

Explaining the fall of socioeconomic inequality in childhood stunting in Indonesia

Can Underutilized Tropical Fruits Meet the Nutritional Requirements of Rural Indonesia?

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