Open AccessThe Factors Affecting Poverty Rate in Central Java Province 2018-2020
Author(s) -
Solikhin Solikhin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eko-regional
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2620-8849
pISSN - 1907-6827
DOI - 10.20884/1.erjpe.2021.16.2.1856
Subject(s) - poverty , population , human development index , java , index (typography) , panel data , gross domestic product , fixed effects model , socioeconomics , pandemic , geography , human development (humanity) , economic growth , economics , demography , covid-19 , econometrics , medicine , sociology , computer science , disease , pathology , world wide web , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
One of the Central Java Provincial Government programs is to reduce the number of people living in poverty. The Central Java Provincial Government target in 2020 was to lower poverty rate to below ten percent. Therefore, it is necessary to determine factors affecting the poverty rate in Central Java. This study aimed to analyze the effect of the Human Development Index, total population, Gross Regional Domestic Product (GDRP), and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the poverty rate in regencies/municipalities in Central Java. The study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the poverty rate in Central Java Province has never been carried out. This study was different from the previous studies. This study used panel data regression by using 2018-2020 data from Statistics Indonesia (BPS). In this study, the result of the best model selection was the random effect model. The result of this study indicated that Human Development Index (HDI) had a negative and significant effect, total population had a positive and insignificant, GRDP had a negative and significant effect, and the impact of Covid-19 pandemic had a positive and significant effect on the poverty rate. Keywords: Impact of Covid-19, Human Development Index, Population, Poverty Rate, Gross Regional Domestic Product.