Estudillo, Jonna P.; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Hossain, Mahabub - In: Asian Economic Journal 19 (2005) 4, pp. 383-406
The present paper examines socioeconomic changes and decline in rural poverty using a panel dataset collected in the Philippine villages in 1985, 1993 and 1997. The most important finding is the transition of the rural economy away from a regime of low nonfarm income to a regime of high nonfarm...