Rachman, Noer F., Laksmi A. Savitri, and Mohamad Shohibuddin (2009) "Questioning Pathways Out of Poverty: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case for the World Bank's Transforming Countries", Journal of Peasant Studies 36(3):621—627
Abstract
The World Development Report 2008 uses Indonesia as an illustrative case for what it calls ‘transforming countries’. The main argument of this paper is that the three pathways out of poverty (commercially-oriented entrepreneurial small-holder farming; rural non-farm enterprise development, and out-migration) prescribed by the Report should be theoretically and empirically questioned because of the possibility of a reverse consequence: the perpetuation of poverty in Indonesia.
Keywords: pathways out of poverty; global market; capitalism
