This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty … alleviation. It employs poverty decomposition and dominance analysis. The analysis was divided into four components: comparison … between male-headed and female-headed nonbeneficiary households. Results show that there is a large disparity in poverty …

research into the following areas: (a) demographic processes (fertility, mortality, migration, gender in demographic process …); (b) program-related research; (c)population and environment; (d) population and poverty. Finally, for each of these …

Poverty incidence has been declining in the Philippines over the past 10 years. However, with the advent of the Asian … crisis in 1997, there was a reversal in poverty trends. Estimates indicate that the headcount index has gone up to 40 percent … in 1998 from 31.8 percent in 1997. Other nonincome-based measures of poverty also suggest deterioration in the welfare …

In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other … 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 …

The paper examines the performance of the Philippines with respect to the fight against poverty. It reviews the trends … in poverty using the various human development indicators. It also examines the changes in the policy environment over … the last 25 years. It identifies issues relating to programs, institutional arrangements and poverty measurement. …

poverty reduction in all areas not because of the improvement in household income, but because of the drop in consumer prices …This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income … inequality. The approach relaxes the representative household assumption in the traditional CGE modeling by replacing household …

This paper reviews the literature and evidence on the population and poverty nexus. The paper situates the role of … demographic changes in development, in general, and poverty alleviation, in particular. It then presents the policy implications … poverty alleviation package. …

The study aims to assess the impact of rising prices of rice and fuel on poverty in the Philippines. In particular, the … variations in the potential effects among different group of households were analyzed using household level data. Results of the … that household level data for all households in the community, such as those being generated by the community …