Has Indonesia passed the Lewis Turning Point and Does it Matter?

Abstract

With the steady growth of population came also the elaboration and extension of mechanisms through which agricultural product was spread, if not altogether evenly, at least relatively so, � it [Javanese society] maintained a high degree of social and economic homogeneity by dividing the economic pie into a steadily increasing number of minute pieces, a process which I have referred elsewhere to as �shared poverty�. Show more