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Do Trade Reforms Promote Nutritional Status? Evidence from Indonesia

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Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia

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Abstract

There is a long tradition in economic development that highlights the role of nourishment in the transition from a subsistence into a mature economy. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an empirical basis for the relationship between trade reforms and population nutritional status using Indonesia as a case study. The analysis employs a panel data of Indonesian districts from four waves of the National Socioeconomic Survey in 1993, 1999, 2005, and 2011 to estimate the degree to which exogenous variations in tariff barriers affect endogenous variations in nutrient consumption. Simultaneous equation estimation results show that lower tariff barriers are expected to lead to a positive and significant impact on nutritional status.

This study is made possible by a research grant from the Australia-Indonesia Centre. We thank Wisnu Harto for excellent research assistance, Yessi Vadila for providing tariff exposure data, and the Australian Data Archive for the Indonesian National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) data.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Data from FAOSTAT statistics database. Retrieved March 26, 2018 from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations website http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data

  2. 2.

    We use IO table with 66 sectors based on the 1990 economic census published by Statistics Indonesia (BPS).

  3. 3.

    The technical exposition of the methods used in this study is available upon request.

  4. 4.

    Another complication is that Aceh was not surveyed by BPS in 2005.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Ari Kuncoro

  2. Department of Social Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

    Yuri Mansury

  3. Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Arianto A. Patunru & Budy P. Resosudarmo

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Kuncoro, A., Mansury, Y., Patunru, A.A., Resosudarmo, B.P. (2019). Do Trade Reforms Promote Nutritional Status? Evidence from Indonesia. In: Batabyal, A., Higano, Y., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 38. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6268-2_7

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