Abstract

This study analyzes the influence of certain economic sectors on poverty levels in districts/cities in Aceh Province. The determination of the economic sector is based on the 4 largest contributions to the economy in Aceh. The economic sector in question is the agriculture, trade, construction, and processing industry sectors. So that the purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of selected economic sectors, namely the agricultural sector, the trade sector, the construction sector, and the manufacturing sector on poverty levels in Aceh. This study uses panel data from 23 districts/cities in Aceh Province for the period 2010-2019 and the data used is the percentage of poverty and data on the distribution of the percentage of Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) by business field. The results obtained from this study are that all independent variables, namely the agricultural sector, the trade sector, the construction sector, and the manufacturing sector have a significant negative effect on the poverty level. This can be seen from the F test probability of 0.00. partially the agricultural sector reduced the poverty rate by 0.71 percent. trade sector 0.48 percent. the construction sector reduces poverty by 0.51 percent and the manufacturing sector reduces poverty by 0.67 percent. Therefore, it is hoped that the government can work together with other policymakers to improve the manufacturing sector both in agriculture and other fields to increase the productivity of society to alleviate poverty.

Highlights

  • Economic development is inseparable from several problems such as increasing the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), reducing the income gap, and reducing the number of poor people (Christiaensen and Kuhl, 2011)

  • Agriculture Sector on Poverty The test results found that the reduction in the poverty rate is simultaneously influenced negatively by the agricultural sector, trade sector, construction sector, and manufacturing industry

  • The test results show that the four sectors show a statistically significant effect on poverty levels

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Introduction

Economic development is inseparable from several problems such as increasing the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), reducing the income gap, and reducing the number of poor people (Christiaensen and Kuhl, 2011). Besides that, sometimes it becomes a dilemma between economic improvement and poverty because the increase in high economic growth does not always guarantee income inequality and the number of poor people will be low (Sehrawat and Giri, 2016). Todaro stated that persistent poverty coupled with high rates is at the core of all development problems (Pérez de la Fuente, B, 2016). Poverty alleviation is the main goal of foreign aid flows (Arham et al, 2020)

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