| Sumario: | A study was conducted to examine the changes in income distribution in Java, Indonesia, between the years 1984 and 1990. The study drew on the Survei Sosial Ekonomi Nasional household level data tapes. One goal of the study was to provide an understanding of the relationship between poverty, inequality, and development by decomposing the distributional changes into components related to the changes in the composition of the Javanese economy and changes in average income levels. In addition, the study aimed to advance DiNardo's et al.'s (1996) semi-parametric approach, presenting decompositions in terms of probability density functions and thereby allowing a more transparent analysis of distributional changes than the traditional method of decomposing opaque summary statistics. The decompositions were mainly presented in the form of cumulative distribution functions, Lorenz curves, and generalized Lorenz curves. It was thus possible to explore how the various facets of the Indonesian growth experience have affected poverty, inequality, and social welfare.
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