#below poverty line

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Thousands of Kenyan single mothers, widows use mobile money to escape poverty

Almost 200,000 Kenyan households, many headed by poor, rural women, have lifted themselves out of poverty using mobile ...

EARTH WIRE -- Social forestry program has many benefits

The social forestry program launched by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is expected to help develop agroforestry, ...

Students protest plan to raise salaries of lawmakers

Student protested plan by the government to raise the salaries of members of the district legislative assembly ...

Government warned of cigarette price increase

The governments reported plan to significantly hike cigarette prices has sparked pros and cons reactions from various ...

Stable food prices reduces poverty rate

Stable commodity prices have reduced the number of Indonesians living in poverty by 0.27 percent, Coordinating ...

Indonesians living below poverty line smaller in number

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said the number of Indonesians living below the poverty line totaled 28.01 ...

Indonesian volunteers distribute 1.5 tons of strawberries among Gaza children

Indonesian volunteers spent part of the money donated by the countrys people to buy 1.5 tons of strawberries for the ...

Indonesia`s Gini ratio down to 0.408 in 2015: Bappenas

Indonesias income gap ratio, or the Gini ratio, has fallen from 0.413 in 2014 to 0.408 this year, according to an ...

Intensive steps planned to overrcome poverty

The Indonesian government is planning to take labor intensive measures to develop retention basins and extend seed ...

NTT third poorest province of Indonesia

East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) is the third poorest among the countrys 34 provinces with 22.61 percent or 1,159,840 of ...

Government optimistic of reducing poverty rate

The government is confident of reducing the poverty rate in the country despite the pessimism expressed by the ...

Number of Indonesian poor reaches 28.5 million

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said that the number of poor people in Indonesia in March 2015 stood at 28.59 ...

Indonesian government PKN program beneficial to fishermen

The traditional fishermen in Indonesia have been reaping the rewards of the Fishermen Welfare Improvement (PKN) ...

Indonesia needs to struggle for social justice: KPK Chief

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman Abraham Samad argued that after 69 years of independence Indonesia ...

Government successfully reduces poverty rate by 4.5 million: president

The government has been successful in reducing the poverty rate by some 4.5 million people over the last five years, ...