#below poverty line

Collection of below poverty line news, found 124 news.

WB approves financial support for social assistance program

The World Banks Board of Executive Directors approved a US$200-million (Rp2.6 trillion) financing to support the ...

Indonesia`s economic transformation has not run well: Darmin

Chief Economic Minister Darmin Nasution said economic transformation has not run well in the country over the past 20 ...

Minister says Family Hope Program reduces poverty

Indonesian Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa says the ministrys Family Hope Program (PKH), a ...

Indonesia wants World Bank to help overcome poverty

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has asked the World Bank to give Indonesia advice on a more effective ...

Poverty rate 28.54%, slightly lower in Papua

The Indonesia Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said poverty rate in the countrys poorest region Papua dropped ...

27 million Indonesians live in poverty

The number of Indonesians living in poverty fell to 27.76 million, or 10.7 percent of the population, by September ...

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 ...