Judul: Dampak penerimaan dan pengeluaran Pemerintah daerah terhadap kinerja ekonomi dan kemiskinan di Indonesia
Abstrak: Local government expenditure has increased from year to year, although the revenue is limited and most provinces depend on central government transfers to finance their expenditure. Therefore, research to determine the allocation of government expenditure need to be done in order to increase economic performance, especially increase economic growth and employment rate, and reduce income inequality and poverty. This study uses simultaneous equations model (SEM) to identify the factors that affect local government revenues and expenditure and their impact on fiscal and economic performace of regions. This study uses Three Stage Least Squares (3SLS) method to estimate parameter coefficient. The result shows that government revenue is affected by GDRP, fiscal gap, investment, and population. Government expenditure is affected by GDRP, revenue, and spending the previous year. Increased government revenues and expenditure has a positive impact on economic performance. Expenditure on industrial sector provides the greatest impact on increase in economic growth, decrease of income inequality and poverty rate. Expenditure on agriculture sector provides the greatest impact on increase in employment rate.
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Judul: Impact of government spending on economic performance and poverty allevation in term of fiscal decentralization
Abstrak: The purposes of this study were to analyze the factors affecting the revenue and allocation of national budget and local government spending and its impact on the economy, flypaper effect, and to formulate policy recommendations in term of more effective and efficient government spending. This study used pooled data at the provincial level on period 2005-2010 and a simultaneous equations model applied to capture the behaviour of each variables. The results were: (1) potential local goverment revenue, fiscal need, and central government transfer were factors that determined the local goverment revenue, sharing revenue, and central government transfer, (2) flypaper effect occured on local expenditures, (3) decocentration funding and assistant task in agricultural sector had more affect on the growth of the agricultural sector, (4) sectoral budget allocation has a positive impact on the economic growth, employment, welfare and poverty allevation, especialy on Indonesia Easterm Regions and (5) The increased general fund allocation (DAU) had a greatest impact on fiscal performance and the regional economy (6) increase revenue-sharing and specific fund had positive impact on economic growth and reduce local government depedency on central government budget. Policy recommendations were: (1) enhancing the sources of local revenue potentially to be the alternative policy due to the fact that increased DAU provide the greatest impact to the regional economy, but will lead to increased dependency to the central government, then increasing revenue sharing may improve fiscal capacity and economic performance, (2) realocation of routine spending to development spending may improve economic performance, (3) designing the clearly authorities between central and local government on several sectors, including on the agricultural development that will be able to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government spending, and (4) Future studies need to be done with the data at the district or town level, and separate spesific fund by sector.
Keyword: fiscal decentralization, deconcentration and assistance tasks, flypaper effect, regional economy.

Judul: Embriogenesis ikan buta (Astyanax fasciatus)
Abstrak: Ikan buta Astyanax fasciatus adalah spesies ikan unik dari famili Characidae yang menempati perairan dalam gua di Wilayah La Cueva Chica-San Luis Potasi-Mexico. Ikan ini memiliki mata yang tereduksi (Blind Cavefish) dan warna kulit merah muda, pucat serta mengkilap.
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