poverty in the Philippines using household survey data. The clear implication of the results is that, in the case of the … Philippines, an active population policy aimed at restricting family size could have an important impact on poverty reduction. …This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to household poverty. It presents results from …

In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other … countries in the region, the Philippines is still behind. In the early years of the 21st century, more than a third of the … Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded …

In this paper, we account for forest wealth in India. Changes in the timber and carbon wealth embodied in these forests … are related to important green national accounting aggregates such as genuine saving and the change in wealth per capita … valuation of these releases. Our empirical findings suggest that while Indias forest wealth is substantial, net changes in this …

and programs, and educating students in classrooms (Fujii, 2007). Besides creating poverty maps, the small-area estimation … small-area estimation; We use the small-area estimation to look at whether poverty is more spatially unequally distributed …The small-area estimation developed by Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2002, 2003), in which a census and a survey are …

in the process of economic integration in ASEAN. In the Philippines, the private sector has dominated the economy … Philippines did not experience the anticipated private sector participation and economic transformation that accompany the … reasons for the Philippines relatively weak private sector response to the opportunities provided by greater openness and …

for industrial upgrading and innovation. Both are present in the case study area of CALABARZON in the Philippines but the …

, barriers, and risks for the Philippines in participating in global trade in health services. It examines the countrys … capabilities in engaging in trade and identifies strategic directions that the Philippines can pursue. It also presents the …

Philippines. It was prompted by the sectors spectacular growth in several of its subsectors, mainly contact call centers, medical … Philippines as a BPO location. These questions were directly addressed by the study. Only after these issues have been addressed …

, the demand for land increases for household owning land more than 5 hectares. On the other hand, the wealth bias of rural …

The paper describes the current decision-making structure for trade policy formulation in the Philippines and compares …