Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Incomes, Capabilities, and Mortality Decline
- 2 Democracy, Spending, Services, and Survival
- 3 Costa Rica: A Healthy Democracy
- 4 Chile: The Pinochet Paradox
- 5 Argentina: Big Welfare State, Slow Infant Mortality Decline
- 6 Brazil: From Laggard to Leader in Basic Health Service Provision
- 7 Taiwan: From Poor but Healthy to Wealthy and Healthy
- 8 South Korea: Small Welfare State, Fast Infant Mortality Decline
- 9 Thailand: Democratization Speeds Infant Mortality Decline
- 10 Indonesia: Authoritarianism Slows Infant Mortality Decline
- 11 Wealth, Health, Democracy, and Mortality
- Appendix Tables
- Works Cited
- Index
10 - Indonesia: Authoritarianism Slows Infant Mortality Decline
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Incomes, Capabilities, and Mortality Decline
- 2 Democracy, Spending, Services, and Survival
- 3 Costa Rica: A Healthy Democracy
- 4 Chile: The Pinochet Paradox
- 5 Argentina: Big Welfare State, Slow Infant Mortality Decline
- 6 Brazil: From Laggard to Leader in Basic Health Service Provision
- 7 Taiwan: From Poor but Healthy to Wealthy and Healthy
- 8 South Korea: Small Welfare State, Fast Infant Mortality Decline
- 9 Thailand: Democratization Speeds Infant Mortality Decline
- 10 Indonesia: Authoritarianism Slows Infant Mortality Decline
- 11 Wealth, Health, Democracy, and Mortality
- Appendix Tables
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Indonesia from 1960 to 1990 achieved fast economic growth, low income inequality, and a steep decline of income poverty. It also improved primary education and introduced a major family planning program, which contributed to a rapid decline of the total fertility rate. Despite these advantages, Indonesia in 1990 had a high infant mortality rate for its level of GDP per capita, a very high infant mortality rate for its level of GDP per capita and income inequality taken together, and an extremely high infant mortality rate relative to that predicted by a broader range of socioeconomic variables. From 1990 to 2005, however, infant mortality decline sped up even though GDP per capita growth slowed down. The acceleration may have been due in part to the lagged effects of previous GDP per capita growth and social service provision, but it also resulted from more effective public service provision after 1990. A good record at public service provision after 1990 offset a poor record in earlier years, such that Indonesia wound up with an infant mortality rate that was just at the level predicted by its GDP per capita in 2005, and with a decline of infant mortality that was almost precisely the amount predicted by its GDP per capita growth from 1960 to 2005 (Figures 1.1 and 1.2). Given its achievements in education, family planning, and fertility, however, Indonesia's record might well have been better.
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- Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America , pp. 254 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010