Taxes and Public Spending in Indonesia | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
January 2016
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oai:openknowledge.worldbank.org:10986/23600
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CC BY 3.0 IGO

Inequality in Indonesia is rising
rapidly. During the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, poverty
rosesharply, while the Gini measure of inequality fell, as
the richest were the hardest hit. Since then, the Gini has
increased from 30 points in 2000 to 41 points in 2014, its
highest recorded level. In 2002, the richest 10 percent of
Indonesians consumed as much as the poorest 42 percent
combined; by 2014, they consumed as much as the poorest 54
percent. Even this is likely to be understated, as household
surveys often miss the rich. Indonesias level of inequality
is now becoming high and climbing faster than most of its
East Asian neighbors.

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Indonesia Ministry of Finance
World Bank

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