Poverty and Social Equality in Buton Regency – South East Sulawesi Indonesia
- June 19, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Category: Economics
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue V, May 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186
Poverty and Social Equality in Buton Regency – South East Sulawesi Indonesia
Yohanis Boni
Economics Department, Haluoleo University, South-East Sulawesi – Indonesai
Abstract—Poverty and social equality have attracted much attentions governmental or non- governmental organizations. One of the possible program to alleviate poverty and increase equality is deploying suitable governmental budgeting program. This manuscript will give an overview of poverty alleviation and social equality in form of government budgeting programs in Buton Regency – South East Sulawesi, Indonesia. Data was collected using extensive literature review on budgeting programs in South East Sulawesi and interview several keys government officers and society leaders. The collected data then analyzed descriptively and interpreted in form of lorenz curve
Keywords—poverty; equality; government, Buton
I. INTRODUCTION
Poverty basically means an individu does not have the income or other economic resources needed to maintain a ‘decent’ quality of life (Cervantes- Godoy and Dewbre, 2010; Alkire and Foster, 2011). While poverty has been analyzed using the monetary estimates of income or consumption, it is the capacity to consume that assumes the central role in determining whether or not one is poor (Houwelling, Kunst et al., 2006).
The most widely used concept of poverty relates to the lack of economic well- being, focusing on the quantifiable ways of defining and measuring it (Suharyadi and Sumarto, 2003). Given the diverse ways in which poverty is understood with some focusing on the physical or material aspects (Lanjouw, Pradhan et al., 2001) and others focusing on the outcome or the standard of living aspects (Pradhan, Suryahadi et al., 2000), some see it important to combine the two aspects. Skouflas (2001) observes, for example, that poverty “pertains to people’s lack of economic resources for consumption of economic goods and services . Although this definition rests on the concept of economic resources needed for consumption, this does not fully specify the type and magnitude of consumption (Fields, Cichello et ala., 2003).
