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 …

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 … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

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 … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces … poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for …

Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)3. The countries are grouped into sending (Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines) and receiving … embarked into substantial decentralization process. The Philippines research team look at the management of massive deployment …

(PRC), Thailand, and the Philippines. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm …

(PRC), Thailand, and the Philippines. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm …

Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)3. The countries are grouped into sending (Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines) and receiving … embarked into substantial decentralization process. The Philippines research team look at the management of massive deployment …

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 …