# Poverty alleviation in the contexof fiscal decentralization in Indonesia > Nursini N. URL kanonis: https://discover.unhas.ac.id/publications/pub_scopus_85066813799 Jurnal / Konferensi: Economics and Sociology Tahun terbit: 2019 DOI: https://doi.org/10.14254/2071-789X.2019/12-1/16 ISSN: 2071789X Kuartil SJR: Q2 Citations: 26 ## Authors - Nursini N. ## Abstract Acceleration of poverty reduction in Indonesia is largely determined by the role of regional governments in implementing fiscal decentralization.Three indicators of fiscal decentralization were used to measure their effects on poverty reduction, i.e., regional government expenditures, regional government revenues, and intergovernmental transfers.This study investigated the panel data regression models for 33 provinces in Indonesia during 2010-2016.The results show that regional government revenues and intergovernmental transfers had a statistically significant effect on reducing poverty while regional government expenditures did not.This study confirms that in the context of fiscal decentralization in Indonesia, the increase of regional government revenues both from own source revenues and intergovernmental transfers appear to be more effective in encouraging poverty reduction than the increase of the total regional government expenditures.Therefore, it is very important for policymakers at the regional level to encourage the increase of regional revenues in order to create enough fiscal space to fund poverty alleviation programs on the one hand.On the other hand, it is necessary to increase the proportion of regional government expenditures to priority programs for poverty alleviation more than regional government operational expenditures. ## Keywords - Decentralization - Revenue - Poverty - Government (linguistics) - Economics - Context (archaeology) - Fiscal federalism - Fiscal space - Government revenue - Panel data - Business - Local government - Central government - Economic growth - Development economics - Economic policy - Fiscal policy - Finance - Political science - Macroeconomics - Geography - Public administration - Archaeology - Philosophy - Econometrics - Market economy - Linguistics --- Sumber: Discover Unhas — RIMS Universitas Hasanuddin. Saat mengutip, gunakan DOI bila tersedia atau URL kanonis di atas.