alleviating poverty. Recently, there has been a move to replicate the Bangladesh Grameen Bank in the Philippines known as Landless …

In 2006, poverty incidence in the Philippines went up by 3 percentage points from 2003, marking a reversal against the … downward trend in previous poverty estimates. This upward trend went against expectations after the Philippine economy … further add to the already difficult work of reducing poverty. The MDG deadline looms ahead and time is running out in the …

, distribution and poverty using a CGE-microsimulation approach wherein the representative household assumption in the traditional …

Despite high agricultural growth, the Philippine unemployed and underemployed has continued to swell. Rural poverty … concerning rural growth, linkages, poverty and income distribution; determinants of income diversification and demand and supply …

This paper examines the influence of overseas remittances to patterns of family expenditures in the Philippines using a … whether or not remittances influence budget allocation of families receiving these income transfers. Specifically, it is … interesting to check if families with remittances tend to allocate more on say education, healthcare, and housing thereby …

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …

Several studies on the impact of international migration and remittances on household outcomes have been released …

This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing … while heterogeneity was addressed by employing the Quantile Regression technique. Also, the FIES data on remittances was … more accurate estimate of remittances sent by family members working abroad and its effects. The study found that while …