Faktor-faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Tingkat Kemiskinan Di Provinsi Jawa Tengah

: Factors Affecting Poverty Rate in Central Java Province. Central Java province has a high number of poor people and is in position 12th of the 33 provinces in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to describe poverty in Central Java and to analyze the effect of Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP), unemployment, and public spending on poverty. Analysis of data used Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique. The result shows that decline in unemplyment rate had no significant effect on poverty. In fact, the number of poor people in rural area is gretaer than those in urban area. Statistically, other variables such as GRDP and public spending have significant effect on poverty while unemployment effect is not significant