Are poor provinces catching‐up the rich provinces in Indonesia?

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Abstract

This paper examines the dynamics of socio‐economic inequalities in Indonesia over the last four decades. We apply a club convergence test to provincial panel data on four socio‐economic indicators: per capita gross regional product, the Gini coefficient, the school enrolment rate, and the fertility rate. We find that there is no single equilibrium steady state path for all these indicators in Indonesia. Instead, the data suggest that there exist two groups, with provinces converging within each of these two groups, but not between these groups. Finally, we identify the provinces that are catching‐up and those that are falling behind in terms of the various socio‐economic indicators.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)89-108
JournalRegional Science, Policy and Practice
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Jan 2019

Funding

We would like to thank the Editors and and three anonymous referees for comments and suggestions. We also would like to thank the participants and commentators from the 55th ERSA Congress 2015 in Lisbon (Portugal), the 8th Euro-SEAS Conference 2015 in Vienna (Austria), and the 7th Southeast Asia Update 2015 in The Hague (The Netherlands) for the insightful discussions and comments. We would like to acknowledge the financial support from the KNAW SPIN-programme for this research.

FundersFunder number
7th Southeast Asia Update
8th Euro-SEAS
KNAW SPIN-programme

    Keywords

    • club convergenc
    • regional development
    • socio-economics disparity
    • spatial inequality

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