Sawada, Yasuyuki; Estudillo, Jonna P. - In: Applied Economics 44 (2012) 26, pp. 3371-3377
This article evaluates whether the Philippines will be able to halve the incidence of poverty between 1990 and 2015. Using the concept of exit time and householdālevel data, we find that the Philippines as a whole will not be able to comply with Target 1 of the Millennium Development Goals...