Millennium Summit in 2000 expects that in 2015 Indonesia must be able to
halve the number of poor people. Problems of poverty and equity is inseparable from
development policies that lead to a strategy of growth-oriented industrialization.
Developed industry is an industry that is foot lose industry, namely the capital-intensive
industries that are not based on domestic resources but is dependent 011 imported
resources so that the potential domestic resources are not used optimally. Such
industrial development will result in a fragile economy, inefficient, vulnerable to the
turmoil in the world economy, and produces less effect trickle down (trickle-down
The number and percentage of poor in the period 1996-2007 fluctuated from
year to year, In the period 1996-1999 the number of poor increased because of the
economic crisis. In the period 2000-2005 the number of poor declined. But in 2006, an
increase in the number of poor quite dramatically. Increasing the number and
percentage of poor people due to rising fuel prices which led to rising prices of various
goods.
As a result the population classified as poor but not income poverty line in a
circle of many who shifted his position to be poor. Number of poor in Indonesia in
March 2007 decreased compared to the poor people in March 2006. Nevertheless, the
percentage of poor people in March 2007 was still higher than the state in February
2005. Sahdan (2005:1) said Poverty has limited the right of people
Based on the background of the earlier problems can be formulated as follows:
Are population growth, investment, education subsidies, and education level affect the
level of poverty in the city of Surabaya? And the research objectives are determine the
effect of population growth, investment, education subsidy, and the level of education
on poverty in the city of Surabaya.
The purpose of this study is to determine how much economic factors affecting
the level of poverty in the city of Surabaya. In an effort to improve the living standards
of poor communities especially in the city of Surabaya. This study uses secondary data
during the 12 years since the years 1996-2007 and analize using multiple linear
regression analysis from Population Growth variables (XI), Investment (X2), Education
Subsidies (X3), and Level of Education (X4) as the independent variable on the
Surabaya City Poverty Rate (Y). Results obtained from testing the hypothesis that the
variables XI, X2, X3, and X4 significant effect Poverty Level variable, this is indicated
by the F test.
Keywords: Poverty, Poor Communities, Education SubsidyX'Uy Poverty Rot
