Village economic opportunity, forest dependence, and rural livelihoods in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Dewi, Sonya; Belcher, B.; Puntodewo, A.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.10.006

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“…Dewi et al (2005) use their own cross-sectional survey for East Kalimantan in order to investigate the determinants of non-agricultural income at the village level for the period of 1992-1996. The authors find that better infrastructure, the closeness to transmigration sites and deforestation (1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996) positively correlate with non-agricultural income.…”

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Cash crop choice and income dynamics in rural areas: evidence for post‐crisis Indonesia

Klasen¹,

Priebe²,

Rudolf

2013

Agricultural Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. In this paper we investigate the factors affecting income levels, income growth, and poverty reduction in rural Indonesia following the crisis of 1997/98. We particularly investigate the relative roles of non-farm incomes, productivity improvements achieved via changes in crops versus improvements on the same crops, and demographic changes induced by the crisis on income dynamics in rural Indonesia. Using a unique household panel data set for Central Sulawesi that allows us to control for a large set of household and geographical characteristics, household fixed effects as well as endogeneity issues, we find that falling household size and the adoption and intensification of new cash crop varieties can explain a substantial part of the observed post-crisis developments. Moreover, we compare our results to cross-sectional data from SUSENAS, Indonesia's large scale national household survey. While the overall determinants of rural incomes are very similar across both data sets, we find that the importance of agricultural self-employed income seems to be higher in Central Sulawesi than in most other parts of Indonesia. Although several factors could explain these differences, lessons from our Central Sulawesi data suggests that unexploited potentials in the production of cash crops in other areas of Indonesia might contribute to these findings. Terms of use: Documents in

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Cash crop choice and income dynamics in rural areas: evidence for post‐crisis Indonesia

Klasen¹,

Priebe²,

Rudolf

2013

Agricultural Economics

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“…This program, therefore, affected the ethnic composition of districts and villages. At the same time, the relocated populations were often provided with land and infrastructure with consequent effects on deforestation (Dewi et al, 2005). While part of these effects should be captured by our measure of population growth, we also control for the presence of Javanese people in the district.…”

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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia

Alesina

Gennaioli

Lovo

2014

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This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic fractionalization at the district level. To identify a casual relation we exploit the exogenous timing of variations in the level of ethnic heterogeneity due to the creation of new jurisdictions. We provide evidence consistent with a lower control of politicians, through electoral punishment, in more ethnically fragmented districts. Our results bring a new perspective on the political economy of deforestation. They are consistent with the literature of (under) provision of public goods and social capital in ethnically diverse societies and suggest that when the underlying communities are ethnically fractionalized, decentralization can reduce deforestation.

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“…It might also be related to large numbers of men obtaining employment income across the border in Malaysia (Colfer personal communication). Using a composite index of wealth, health and education in measuring the poverty rate in 73 villages in East Kalimantan, Dewi et al (2005) demonstrated that the relatively low poverty rate in Kalimantan might be at least partly related to forest dwellers' direct access to forest resources. They explain that 'Higher levels of forest resources and suitable land for agroforestry are also associated with higher welfare.…”

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Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions

Sunderlin¹,

Dewi²,

Puntodewo³

2007

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Village economic opportunity, forest dependence, and rural livelihoods in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Cited by 80 publications

References 8 publications

Cash crop choice and income dynamics in rural areas: evidence for post‐crisis Indonesia

Cash crop choice and income dynamics in rural areas: evidence for post‐crisis Indonesia

Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia

Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions

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