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Understanding agrarian change : scenarios of agricultural development, income diversification, food poverty and nutritional insecurity in Indonesia
No full textFollowing strong economic growth in Asia, most of the world's extreme poor - an estimated 735 million - now live in middle-income countries (Yemtsov et al. 2018). In the process of economic and demographic growth and rapid urbanisation, until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic we saw declining poverty - in both relative and absolute numbers - accompanying increasing social and regional inequality and persistent nutritional insecurity (FAO, IFAD and WFP 2015)
Conclusions and implications : paradoxes of agrarian change and social protection
No full textIn this volume, we have set out to understand rural change in all its complexities. We have sought to comprehend why rural poverty and nutritional insecurity persist despite the decline in extreme poverty. How is the nature of poverty changing and what are the implications for agrarian change and social protection policy
Social protection and the challenge of poverty in Indonesia
No full textOver the past two decades, the Indonesian state has embarked on a large and ever-growing social policy agenda to help the poor. Social assistance has evolved from simple distribution of rice and food packages to the electronically based provision of food rations, and from basic income support to the introduction of the expanding conditional cash transfers. The government has also extended education subsidies and provided health cost coverage for the poor
Agrarian scenarios and nutritional security in Indonesia
No full textOver the last few decades, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty rates in Indonesia had been declining. Within just one generation, tens of millions of people - both urban and rural poor - have improved their incomes, living conditions, infrastructure, education facilities and healthcare. This shift reflects the official poverty line statistics and local conceptualisations of poverty provided by our community wealth ranking exercises (discussed below). According to local criteria, at least 30 per cent of the inhabitants in half of our village studies transitioned out of more extreme forms of poverty. Yet, shifting standards of material welfare occur, alongside the persistence of poverty and nutritional insecurity in rural areas. The prevalence of high levels of stunting and ongoing deprivation (in local terms) indicates poverty's complexity and multi-dimensional nature, and invites a deeper investigation of the underlying processes
Agrarian change and social assistance outcomes
No full textThis chapter draws together our findings on poverty dynamics and social assistance. First, we consider the predominant patterns of rural change: what is the character of poverty and nutritional security in contemporary Indonesia? Second, we discuss the significance of social assistance programmes: what are the patterns of inclusion and exclusion, and what processes shape these outcomes
Epilogue : the COVID-19 pandemic, changing agrarian scenarios and social assistance
No full textAs we finalised this volume, the COVID-19 pandemic bore down on Indonesia and disrupted the picture of declining rural poverty discussed in earlier chapters. To reflect on the implications for rural livelihoods and the scenarios we identified, we conducted interviews and reviews of available reports. Here we offer some preliminary thoughts on the impacts of the pandemic and consider how COVID-19 has triggered changes within the scenarios outlined in Chapter 2. We also reflect on the role of social assistance during this crisis
LABOUR AND SOCIAL INSECURITY
Get PDFDi tiap negara baik negara maju maupun berkembang terdapat kelompok-kelompok lemah yang berada pada posisi "insecure". Mereka memiliki keterbatasan akses untuk memperoleh atau meningkatkan kondisi hidupnya. Pada kelompok-kelompok tersebut diperlukan adanya mekanisme lain yang memungkinkan mereka menjadi lebih "secure". Tulisan ini mencoba memberikan pemahaman tentang peran dan mekanisme "social security" sebagai salah satu sistem yang penting bagi kelompok lemah. Menurut penulis, berbagai strategi dilakukan oleh kelompok buruh baik secara individual maupun kelompok untuk mengatasi kondisi mereka yang penuh risiko dan memiliki keterbatasan dalam berbagai hal. Untuk menjelaskan hal itu, penulis sangat menekankan penggunaan konsep "insecure" sebagai titik tolak pembahasan "social insecurity" di negara-negara sedang berkemban
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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