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Indonesia’s Spending Inequality Drops to Pre-Pandemic Low on Aid
- Spending gap between low- and high-income households narrows
- Social aid this year was comparable to early days of Covid
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Indonesia is back on track in reducing economic inequality, helped by increased social welfare support, according to government data.
The gap between household spending among the rich- and low-income Indonesians measured by the Gini coefficient, has narrowed to a post-pandemic low of 0.379 from 0.388 last year, data from the country’s statistics agency BPS show. The lower the number, the greater the level of equality, according to the index developed by Italian statistician Corrado Gini in 1912.