The impact of social protection program toward extreme poverty alleviation in indramayu

Author: 
Roya Hayatina Latua Silawane, Jaenal Effendi and Bambang Juanda

The problem of extreme poverty is one of the most crucial issues affected in every country. This research aims to analyze the distribution model of social assistance funds for beneficiary households among those affected by extreme poverty in Indramayu. As well as the implication of accuracies in updating data for effectiveness in distributing the social protection funds. Currently, the data used for this study are primary data with classification in lowland and coastal zones. Furthermore, the analysis method uses Difference in Difference (DID), which R-studio processes as the application software. In addition, according to the results, there is an increase in income within the extreme poverty society (treatment group) that equals 1106262 rupiahs when other variables are constant. In addition, another phenomenon was found that groups who did not receive any social assistance (control group) also had an increased revenue throughout the period. The other point worth underlining is based on the DID model analysis. It was found that the large number of household members proved to significantly Influence the increasing level of income towards the treatment group.

Paper No: 
4479