Although consumption expenditure data is crucial for assessing the level of peoples welfare and calculating important …, we experiment with three approaches to predict consumption expenditure and poverty at household and aggregate level as … simpler alternatives to using consumption expenditure. The idea is not to use these alternatives as a substitute for …

encourage consumption, either by raising the level of household disposable income or reducing the savings rate are likely to …

encourage consumption, either by raising the level of household disposable income or reducing the savings rate are likely to …

encourage consumption, either by raising the level of household disposable income or reducing the savings rate are likely to …

Have age profiles of consumption and labor income in the Philippines changed from 1994 to 2002? What are the … estimate the per capita age profiles of current consumption and labor income for the Philippines for the years 1994, 1999 and … 2002. Age profiles estimated include those for public and private consumption for three broad types, i.e. education, health …

measurements of inequality. Firstly, unlike previous studies, our paper uses real consumption expenditure that takes into account …

the consumption of which reflects the stratification of Filipino society, as supported by quantitative data on … contemporary trends in rice consumption. The paper concludes with reflections on the diminished centrality of rice in Philippine …