In urban Philippines, the percentage of persons with disability (PWDs) participating in various government and … also low. These were some of the findings of a 2008 survey on persons with disability in selected cities in Metro Manila …. Interestingly, it focuses on the role of social networks among PWD, environmental constraints, and the type of disability the person …

The Philippines had laid down the groundwork for improving the welfare of persons with disability (PWDs) two decades … ago when it enacted the Magna Carta for Persons with Disability. Several other policies have been formulated since then to …

rights of, and mainstream persons with disability (PWDs) into the society. However, pioneering surveys on the condition of …

This paper examines the linkages of poverty and environment at the household level in Philippine slums. Rapid … and informal settlements in the country. While poverty incidence of the population in key metropolitan centers is on … informal settlers confront on a daily basis another dimension of poverty which is environmental poverty. The underserviced and …

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 …

This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at … understand the relationships while accounting for the nature of growth. Moreover, the poverty elasticity of output growth was … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in poverty …

factors (poverty and costs of education), differences in expectations between boys and girls, and education of mothers. Supply …

Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue …. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … poverty through data collected from national surveys and administrative records of government agencies. The estimations show …