Reducing Poverty of Cocoa Smallholders in Indonesia: Is Agricultural Economic Activity Still the Pioneer?
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One of the crucial debates arises when finding a solution for reducing rural poverty, is how the causes of poverty should be classified into the agricultural and non-agricultural economic activities. A strong assumption is that, agricultural and non-agricultural economic activities could be expected to reduce poverty, but it is difficult to determine the economic activities that have a strong positive impact on rural poverty reduction. This paper identifies the poverty causes of two villages (hereafter, ‘desa’) in Indonesia by interviewing 152 cocoa smallholder households. We employed a (1) Head Count and Poverty Gap Indices for describing the poverty situation, (2) Factor Analysis for constructing representative factors for the dimension, (3) Path Analysis for identifying the direct and indirect impacts of explanatory variables on household income as a poverty proxy, and (4) Paired-samples T-Test to evaluate the degree of poverty differences....
- Author (email):
- Muhammad Arsyad (arsyad@unhas.ac.id)
- Submitted On:
- 30 Jan 2015
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