Title: The Impact of Infrastructure Development on Economic Growth in Papua
Author: Siti Munawaroh
Affiliations : Master of Economics Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Airlangga Surabaya, Indonesia
Publisher: Universitas Airlangga
Abstract
Infrastructure development is evidence of the development of a region or area. This study aims to analyze the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth in Papua. The method used is unbalanced panel data regression, the infrastructure variables used in this study are road infrastructure, education infrastructure, and health infrastructure. This study also added other variables, namely government investment proxied by capital expenditure, labor, and human capital proxied by the human development index. The results show that health infrastructure, government investment, and human capital have a significant effect on economic growth in Papua. The variables of road infrastructure, education infrastructure, and labor have an insignificant effect on economic growth. This proves that the acceleration of development carried out by the government is not optimal, but in fact, the acceleration of development has a personal impact on each region in Papua.
Keywords: Infrastructure Development, Human Capital, Economic Growth, Panel Data Regression