Exploring the Development of Poverty Eradication Efforts in Southeast Asia: A Scientometric Perspective

Abstract

This article intends to find out the development of Southeast Asia countries efforts in eradicating the poorness by mapping proclivity of the topics in the Scopus database. VOSviewer 1.6.18 was used to visualize such trends. This study shows that there are 187 relevant publications yet only 20 of them specifically discuss poverty eradication efforts. Indonesia is the most productive country in publishing such efforts. Andam’s document in 2010 is the most cited article that discusses the impact of protection systems on poverty as an effort to eradicate poverty in Thailand. Furthermore, efforts to eradicate poverty in Vietnam are implemented by enhancing the poor and providing funding facilities. In the Philippines, such efforts are accomplished through strengthening the poor networking and creating community support system, while in Malaysia the focus is more on IT. Meanwhile, other countries did not specifically discuss poverty eradication efforts.