Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis, Vol. 1 of 1

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Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis

Author:	Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael;	Collection Title:	Policy research working paper series ; no. WPS 3503
Country:	Indonesia;	Date Stored:	2005/02/24
Document Date:	2005/02/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	East Asia and Pacific
Report Number:	WPS3503	SubTopics:	Poverty Monitoring & Analysis; Environmental Economics & Policies; Economic Theory & Research; Poverty Assessment; Economic Conditions and Volatility; Inequality; Public Health Promotion
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: The immediate welfare costs of an economywide crisis can be high, but are there also lasting impacts? And are they greater in some geographic areas than others? The authors study Indonesiaﾒs severe financial crisis of 1998. They use 10 national surveys spanning 1993ﾖ2002, each covering 200,000 randomly sampled households, to estimate the impacts on mean consumption and the incidence of poverty across each of 260 districts. Counterfactual analyses indicate geographically diverse impacts years after the crisis. Proportionate impacts on the poverty rate were greater in initially better off and less unequal areas. In the aggregate, a large share - possibly the majority - of those Indonesians who were still poor in 2002 would not have been so without the 1998 crisis.


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