The study aim is to analyze how the effects of fiscal decentralization and Human Development Index (HDI) on poverty in Indonesia. This study employ secondary data in the form of time series from 2010 to 2017, and cross section data consisting of 33 provinces in Indonesia, so that the type of polled data can be categorized that is a combination of time series data (for 8 years) with cross section data 33 Province in Indonesia. The analytical method used is PLS (Panel Least Square) with a comparison of two models namely the Fixed Effect and Robust Least Square models. From the results of the Fixed Effect regression model shows that DDF has a negative and insignificant effect on Poverty, while HDI has a negative and significant effect on Poverty. The study found that each additional unit of DDF reduced poverty by 10.97 percent if the HDI remains. In addition, the Human Development Index unit reduced the number of poor by 79.83 percent if the DDF remains. These findings implied that to reduce the poverty, efforts to improve HDI need to be focused.
Poverty is a problem in all countries especially in several countries in ASEAN. Some policies taken to diminish the poverty have not yet effective considering the poverty is still high in ASEAN countries. Considering ASEAN countries have a predominantly Muslim population who annually spend some of their wealth for zakat, it is important to study whether zakat can be effective to be used as one of alternative policy to improve the rate of economic growth which will ultimately have an impact on poverty alleviation as well. This study uses panel data analysis to compare the effect of zakat on economic growth in several ASEAN countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore from 2010 to 2015. The results show that zakat have a positive but not significantly effect on economic growth. Thus, it is recommended for the government to improve the implementation and evaluation of zakat distribution so that zakat can directly improve the welfare of people, and hence improve the economic growth in ASEAN countries.
This study was aimed to analyze the relationship of long-term and short-term equilibrium between exchange rates and inflation on exports in ASEAN-8 countries (Brunei Darussalam, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand) by using analysis model with the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) panel from the period 1990 to 2017. The model selection was based on long-term and short-term capabilities with different stationary levels. The results revealed that in long-term the exchange rate and inflation had a dominant influence on export activities in ASEAN-8 countries, while inflation had a dominant influence on exports in short-term. This result proved that inflation had a large influence on the growth of the trade stability, if the cost of products and services continuously increased in the market mechanism, it will result in the increased public consumption. The excess liquidity in the market triggered the consumption or speculation which resulted in the non-compliance products distribution and the decline in currency value continuously.
There are some factors predicted tohave an effect on the countries’ economic devlopment. This study aimed to analyze the long-term and short-term effects of In-flation, Exchange Rate, and Foreign Economic Growth (the destination of the United States, China, and Japan) on the Indonesian Export. The Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model is used in this analysis from 1968 through 2017. The results of the analysis show that in the long-term, the inflation and the economic growth in China as well in Japan has a positive sign and significant effect on Indonesian exports. In addition, in the short-term, the US exchange rate and economic growth have a positive significant effect on Indonesian exports.
The aims of this research are to understand the development disparities, income distribution, human development, and the geographical difficulties in North-East, Center-South East, and West-South of Aceh Regions. The methods of analysis used are Williamson Index, Lorentz Curve, Gini Coefficient, Human Development Index (IPM), and Geographical Difficulties Index (IKG). The results show that based on Williamson Index, the developments in the North-East, Center-South East Regions of Aceh are still low. Based on the Lorenz Curve, West-South Region is far from equality line, it is followed by Center-South East and North-East Regions. Thus, it can be stated that West-South and Center-South East Regions experience relatively greater income disparities compared to North-East Region. Based on Human Development Index Calculation, West-South of Aceh is the region that has lowest Human Development Index, then it followed by Center-South East and North-East Regions of Aceh. Based on Geographical Difficulties Index, West-South Region of Aceh has the highest Geographical Difficulties Index compared to Center-South East and North-East Regions of Aceh viewed from the existence of basic services, infrastructure condition, and transportation.The government must strive to reduce development disparities in the North-East, Central-Southeast and West-South regions of Aceh so that there will be no provincial division and conflict between regions.
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