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| Higher Growth Needed to Combat Poverty [in Indonesia] |
| 2004-02-18 |
| Indonesia must boost its economic growth to 6% in order to alleviate unemployment and poverty, says the International Labor Organization (ILO)... An estimated 110 million Indonesians live on less than a dollar a day and are at risk of becoming poorer if the nation fails to further improve economic growth... Manpower and Transmigration Minister Jacob Nuwa Wea in October said there were an estimated 38.2 million unemployed people in Indonesia. Economic growth in Indonesia is critical to the WOT. Poor, unemployed, frustrated youth were the basis of the attempted communist coup in the 1960s -- the Indonesians (although doing so is contrary to most Indonesians worldview) would go islamofascist if it promised a better life. Of course, the chronic corruption doesn’t much help economic growth . . . |
| Posted by:cingold |