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Article: WB POVERTY PROJECTION ONLY TO JUSTIFY GOVT'S PROGRAMS : EXPERT.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- November 16, 2007
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JAKARTA, Nov 16 Asia Pulse - A World Bank statement that Indonesia's poverty rate will have dropped 2.6 per cent by 2008 is not more than an effort to justify the government's poverty programs, a private economic analyst said.
Henri Saparini, an analyst at the Advisory Group on Economics, Industry and Trade (Econit), was referring to a World Bank projection that Indonesia's poverty rate in 2008 would be 42.6 per cent (100.7 million people) or down from 45.2 per cent (105.3 million people) in 2007.
The projection appeared to be just an attempt to justify the government's poverty alleviation programs most of which were funded by the World Bank, Saparini ...