PENGARUH PENGELUARAN PEMERINTAH PADA SEKTOR PUBLIK DAN PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI TERHADAP TINGKAT KEMISKINAN (Studi Kasus Di Pulau Jawa Tahun 2004-2011)

ABSTRACT EKA NURDIANTI. The Influence Of Government Expenditure For Public Sector And Economic Growth Towards Poverty. (Case Study In Java Island 2004-2011) Cooperation Economic Education, Economic and Administration, Faculty of Economic, State University of Jakarta. 2013. This research is to determine whether the influence of government expenditure for public sector (education and health) and economic growth in Java Island. Types of the data used in this research is panel data that combine data time series from 2004 until 2011 and the cross series data (cross section) of the six provinces in Java Island with secondary data published by Ministry of Finance RI and Badan Pusat Statistik. Processing data using Eviews 6.0 program. Best estimates of model selection performed on the three types of model estimates and fixed effect models with the cross section weights is the best model. Based on the estimates, government expenditure for public sector (education) has negative effect and significant on poverty in Java Island. The result of government expenditure for public sector (health) shown negative effect and significant on poverty in Java Island, and the economic growth has negative and significant impact on poverty too. At the confidence level of 95% of all independent variables (simultaneously) significantly influence the dependent variable. Normality assumptions are met and no multicollinearity while heteroscedasticity was solved by using the weights. So that the variables used free of violations of classical assumptions. Keywords: Poverty, Government Expenditure for Public Sector, Economic Growt