Fiscal reform, decentralization and poverty alleviation in the context of China's 12th Five-Year Plan

Yeoh, Émile Kok-Kheng; Ling, Susie Yieng-Ping; Shy, Fan Pik

doi:10.1080/17516234.2012.678737

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“…Whether conditional or unconditional, fiscal transfers can significantly accelerate poverty reduction efforts. When effectively administered with autonomy in budget allocation, priority setting, accountability, and appropriate responsiveness, these transfers can substantially mitigate poverty (Yeoh et al, 2012;Duah et al, 2018;Hussain et al, 2021). Consequently, governments establish social protection programs that include cash and non-cash assistance, incorporating both conditional and unconditional elements.…”

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Can fiscal transfers effectively reduce poverty in the Gorontalo Province?

Arham,

Humalanggi,

Tantawi

et al. 2024

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The central government has increasingly diversified and expanded fiscal transfers to local authorities to enhance community welfare rapidly. However, in Gorontalo, although poverty rates have declined, the pace of reduction has slowed despite an increase in the value of transfers. This study aims to identify the fiscal transfer mechanisms most effective in reducing Gorontalo's poverty rate. It focuses on several types of fiscal transfers, including the Special Allocation Fund (DAK), Village Fund Allocation (ADD), Family Hope Program (Program Keluarga Harapan, PKH), Smart Indonesia Program (Program Indonesis Pintar, PIP), and Social Assistance. Utilizing panel data regression analysis covering all six districts/cities in Gorontalo Province over the last five years (2018-2022) and employing the Fixed Effects Model (FEM), the findings suggest that PIP assistance has the most significant impact on poverty reduction, although its effects are more long-term. Moreover, the study finds that while ADD transfers notably enhance community welfare, the two-decade-long DAK transfers have inadvertently worsened poverty levels in Gorontalo. This issue stems from the DAK's allocation formula, which does not directly target the income improvement of low-income populations. Both PKH and Social Assistance have shown little positive effect on poverty alleviation in the region. Consequently, the study recommends that the government prioritize expanding and funding enhancement of PIP assistance, considering many underprivileged individuals remain unreached by this support. Additionally, it suggests increasing the ADD to accelerate development in poverty-stricken rural areas.

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Can fiscal transfers effectively reduce poverty in the Gorontalo Province?

Arham,

Humalanggi,

Tantawi

et al. 2024

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“…Some infrastructures are often used in econometric exercises include the availability of electricity, availability of schools and medical clinics in the area, and distance to local administrative centers. Studies that focus on community-level characteristics also consider the average human resource development, access to employment, social mobility, and representation as the representative of community variables that affect poverty (Greenstein, Gentilini, & Sumner, 2014;Malik, Mahmood-Ul-Hassan, & Hussain, 2006;Yeoh, Ling, & Shy, 2012). At household and individual characteristics, many studies include the age structure of household members, education, the gender of the household head, and the extent of participation in the labor force as variables that have a significant effect on poverty (Beard, 2007;Okurut & Charles, 2014;Qibthiyyah & Utomo, 2016).…”

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The Linkage of Intergovernmental Transfer and Poverty in Indonesia

Putra¹

2017

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Decentralization is expected to reduce poverty. Through fiscal decentralization, poverty may be reduced by optimizing intergovernmental grants. However, its effect on poverty is beginning to be questioned after some districts in Indonesia showed slowing performance on poverty reduction despite increasing transfer. Thus, this paper tends to investigate the linkage of intergovernmental transfer (IT) and poverty in Indonesia. By using panel data from 2005 to 2013, the linkage is tested using linear regression model. The result shows that increasing 1% of IT allocation will reduce poverty absolute by 0.12%, or 10% increase of IT will reduce poverty by 1.24%. The intergovernmental transfer also directly affects poverty gap and poverty rate. Increasing 10% of IT will reduce the poverty gap and poverty rate by 9.49% and 31.73%, respectively. Moreover, DAU (unconditional intergovernmental transfer) has a higher effect than DAK (conditional intergovernmental transfer) on poverty eradication. An increase of DAU by 1% will reduce the poverty number by 0.068%, in contrast, DAK only has 0.0418% to reduce poverty. However, as the difference is relatively small, the effectiveness of DAU on poverty is not consistent with the decentralization theory. Unconditional grant must have a significant difference than conditional grant on poverty. It may indicate that the DAU has been spent ineffectively and inefficiently. It may also indicate that it has been spent on not pro-poor policies. Thus, fiscal decentralization in Indonesia needs to be reevaluated in order to support poverty alleviation program.

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Inclusive urban entrepreneurial ecosystem policies: An application of the meta‐synthesis approach

Shakiba

Delangizan

Mohamadifar

2022

Poverty & Public Policy

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Poverty has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. Despite the nature of entrepreneurship to facilitate economic development, there are limited studies regarding the related concept of inclusive development. This issue is the motivating factor for this study to introduce the concept of inclusive urban entrepreneurial ecosystem (IUEE). IUEE provides a market-and resource-based view of poverty alleviation and can be considered as a new pattern of inclusive business (IBs) growth. Hence, the aim of this study is to formulate policies for IUEE by conducting a qualitative meta-synthesis of the theoretical literature. In this meta-synthesis, we synthesized a total of 155 findings from 64 studies conducted to date. The results are grouped into 17 concepts and nine main policies as follows: IUEE modeling, considering the role of IBs, improving the ecosystem members' social interactions, supporting inclusive entrepreneurship intermediaries, sustained commitment to inclusive entrepreneurship, strengthening learning opportunities in the ecosystem, maintaining the ecosystem diversity and dynamics, improving the inclusive entrepreneurship facilities and managing the inputs and outputs of the ecosystem. The findings of this study can be used to develop IUEEs and achieve entrepreneurial cities.

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Fiscal reform, decentralization and poverty alleviation in the context of China's 12th Five-Year Plan

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Can fiscal transfers effectively reduce poverty in the Gorontalo Province?

Can fiscal transfers effectively reduce poverty in the Gorontalo Province?

The Linkage of Intergovernmental Transfer and Poverty in Indonesia

Inclusive urban entrepreneurial ecosystem policies: An application of the meta‐synthesis approach

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