TY  - JOUR
T1  - Priority-Driven Budgeting Policy and Regional Inequality: The Intervening Effect of Economic Structure Transformation
AU - , Abdiyanto AU - Lubis, Suwardi AU - Afifudin, Syaad AU - , Rujiman 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 9
IS  - 6
SP  - 1263
EP  - 1273
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2015.1263.1273
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2015.1263.1273
KW  - Priority budget policy
KW  -regional inequality
KW  -economic structure transformation
KW  -economic growth
KW  -education
AB  - Resources are scare and the main challenges faced by local governments in developing countries are to allocate effectively. This challenge relates to government’s effort to reduce regional inequality. This study examined the relationship between priority-based budgeting policy and local growth imbalance by using economic structure transformationas the intervening variable. Researchers employed multivariate regression and path-analysis to examine the relationship. The results revealed that the priority-based budgeting affected local inequality significantly through structural transformation. It explicitly demonstrates that the prioritized government allocation in education, health and education plays an important role to strengthen economic transformation leading to reduce regional divergence.
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