; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure, and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of …

This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about … the need not only to monitor current poverty, but also to reduce future poverty. An assessment of the trends in household … vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006. Measurement of household vulnerability is based on the …

This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at … understand the relationships while accounting for the nature of growth. Moreover, the poverty elasticity of output growth was … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in poverty …

While economic growth is important for poverty reduction, the rather stellar performance of the Philippines in economic … growth has still not translated into reduction of poverty. This is in large part due to issues pertaining to distribution … processes. The study looks at trends in various statistics on poverty and income distribution, and then examines how disparities …

one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

This paper reviews the literature and evidence on the population and poverty nexus. The paper situates the role of … demographic changes in development, in general, and poverty alleviation, in particular. It then presents the policy implications … poverty alleviation package. …

This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income … inequality. The approach relaxes the representative household assumption in the traditional CGE modeling by replacing household … poverty reduction in all areas not because of the improvement in household income, but because of the drop in consumer prices …

and poverty severity is largely explained by income redistribution. On the other hand, while inequality measures indicate … address poverty and inequality in country in pursuit of eradicating all forms of poverty as targeted by the Sustainable …The Philippines is generally winning its fight against poverty as the magnitude and incidence of poverty, income gap …