is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for 70 countries from 1981 to 1999, we do find that income instability results in a lower poverty reduction for a …

extent and determinants of credit constraints in the Philippines. Based on direct questions on households' experiences in …

vérifier dans quelle mesure l'Indonésie, la Malaisie, les Philippines et la Thaïlande (souvent regroupés sous l … connu des trajectoires nationales de développement relativement similaires, tandis que les Philippines se distinguent … sur les trois premiers pays cités, et mettre de côté le cas des Philippines. …

Philippines a été connue en France par le biais de Koh Lanta. Malgré une protection relative des lieux, le tourisme peut devenir …

-Driven Development project on civil conflict in the Philippines. The country is characterized by the presence of two rebel groups, the …

size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in …

Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …

inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …