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  • Empowering Young Women Through Farming in East Nusa Tenggara

    INDONESIA, 2016/05/26

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • Companies rapped for polluting the environment in Indonesia

    INDONESIA, 2013/12/15 The Environment Ministry has issued 17 firms with so-called “black labels” for polluting the environment and failing to meet environmental standards set by the ministry for the 2012-2013 Environment Management Performance Ranking Program (Proper). Part the 17 firms are diesel power stations (PLTD) and coal-fired steam power plants (PLTU) owned by national-owned electricity company PT PLN, inclunding the five-star Sultan Hotel in Central Jakarta. The ministry found the 17 firms failed to monitor or carry out toxic waste processing.

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    INDONESIA, 2013/08/11 Much of the research on poverty in Indonesia has measured evolution by using national poverty lines. But a new paper, presented recently at the Forum Kebijakan Pembangunan (video here), instead uses international poverty lines of US$1.25, $2 and adds $10 a day to discuss trends and patterns of poverty reduction from 1990–2010 inclunding making projections on various scenarios to 2030.

  • Poverty reduction continues to slow in Indonesia

    INDONESIA, 2013/01/17 Efforts to reduce poverty often fail to address the issue of Indonesia’s economically vulnerable people. For instance, while 12 % of Indonesians live below the official poverty line, nearly 40 % live below 1.5 times this line, or on less than Rp12,400 per day (around US$1.80 adjusted for purchasing power).
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