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to address the many facets of poverty. The 4Ps is by far the largest poverty reduction and social development program the … to alleviate their immediate needs and aims to "break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human …
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beneficiaries closer to reaching the poverty threshold because getting employed would provide additional income to the beneficiaries …
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; and (iv) tend to ironically reduce average income and raise household poverty rate. These results illustrate how rapid …
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The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program has been much maligned and dismissed as a "dole-out" program. Critics have focused on the fact that it provides cash grants directly to poor families, believing it would promote the culture of mendicancy and dependence. Others believe that the grants would...
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study reviews recent trends in the rice market, and assesses the poverty and distributional effects of rice tariffication … and palay prices. The price and associated economic adjustments are expected to cause an increase in income poverty as …
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Poverty simulations suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented by the government to contain the …
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In 2006, poverty incidence in the Philippines went up by 3 percentage points from 2003, marking a reversal against the … downward trend in previous poverty estimates. This upward trend went against expectations after the Philippine economy … finds that the increase in the poverty rate in 2003 to 2006 was attributed to worsening income distribution. Despite the …
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This paper reviews the current state of and challenges facing social protection in the Philippines. It describes the social protection institutions and the schemes that have been developed throughout the years. It also provides an assessment focusing on coverage, administration, and management....
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The Philippine government shows its serious effort to combat poverty through the continuing expansion of the Pantawid … American countries. The 4Ps by far is the most comprehensive and also controversial poverty reduction program of the Philippine …
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The paper seeks to take stock of some of the key APEC documents/reports relevant to social protection and safety net programs, and also of the experience of APEC member-economies, with special focus on the Philippines, in implementing social protection measures. In particular, it attempts to...
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