Economic Analysis of Poverty Alleviation through Fishery Resources Utilization in Makassar City Coastal Region

Abstract

This study is conducted aiming to analyze a model through the improvement of human resources quality, theavailability of production tools, the existence of local culture and the improvement of economic capability inalleviating poverty and to analyze the implementation of fishery resources variables used to alleviate poverty ofcoastal communities. This research is done in coastal region of Makassar City. The period used in this study is 4(four) months. The population in this study is all fishermen categorized in poor. The number of samples isdetermined by purposive quota sampling to those with poor criterion as described in the background, and basedon Slovin formula, the sample is 99 respondents. This analysis technique is used in this study is Partial LeastSquare (PLS). The result shows that total determination coefficient is 80.84%. This indicates that data variabilitywhich is able to be explained by the model is equal to 80.84%, or in other words, the information contained inthe data can be explained as many as 80.84% by the model. The result also gives evidence that the improvementof human resources quality, the availability of fishing gears and the existence of local cultures have influence oneconomic capability and economic capability influences significantly in reducing the number of families underthe poverty line.Keywords: Partial Least Square (PLS), Economic Capability, Quality Improvement, Local Culture, PoorFamilies