Tracking the Trail of Regional Financial Performance: Economic Growth as a Bridge towards Poverty Reduction

This study aims to see and determine the indirect influence of regional government financial performance on poverty through economic growth in Indonesia. The analysis method used is multiple linear regression and Sobel test using secondary data from 34 provinces in Indonesia in 2014-2021. The findings of this study indicate that regional financial performance as proxied by the effectiveness ratio and efficiency ratio on poverty directly has an influence, but indirectly where economic growth which is an intermediary to see the influence of regional financial performance on poverty shows no influence, this shows that economic growth cannot mediate the influence of regional financial performance on poverty.