Program`s Self-Employment Assistance Kaunlaran (SLP SEA-K). The SLP SEA-K uses a microcredit strategy that intends to provide …-generating activities. Microcredit services are generally believed to have a positive socioeconomic impact; however, the success of projects … handle microcredit programs. Additionally, they see the one-size-fits-all strategy of the program as a problem because of the …

recommend that for microfinance programs to be effective as a poverty-alleviation tool there is a need to review and constantly … Philippines. RMFP aimed to support efforts of the Government of the Philippines to strengthen rural financial institutions by … quasi-experimental design with incoming clients of randomly selected participating microfinance institutions as the …

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve … financial access of the poor and small economic players and thus help them to build assets, thereby contribute to poverty … alleviation. This paper provides an overview of rural finance and microfinance development in transition countries in Southeast …

would serve as inputs to national strategies and plans in improving LSD in the Philippines. It develops a Triangulation …) nexus of supply-side and demand-side of governance; (j) omnipresence of politics even in matters of local service delivery …

This paper extends the analysis on microfinance and poverty from the household perspective by focusing on the role of … other economically active household members in alleviating household poverty. Results show that additional other …, results from the earnings regression analysis and logit analysis indicate congruence with generally accepted theory on poverty …

, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MicSMEs) and poor households. The overall policy environment for promoting microfinance … in the Philippines has indeed considerably improved since 1990, and there are signs that banks have favorably responded …

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 …