In developing countries like the Philippines, a major policy concern is the inequity in access to health and education … improving overall access, but not necessarily its equity. -- Households ; equity, health ; education ; Philippines …

the long-term development history of the Philippines. The MDCR recognizes the multiplicity of development objectives …

poverty reduction requires nothing less than rapid but sustained and inclusive growth. -- Human Development ; Philippines …

Philippines in the past two decades. Agricultural growth is still relatively more important (vis-à-vis non-agricultural growth … Philippines ; Asia …

decades and across subpopulation groups in the Philippines. It finds that what is generally known about the country … done to make development more inclusive. -- Poverty ; Welfare ; Human Development ; Philippines …

the critical human capital investments for the young members. Based on previous studies and data from the Philippines and … presented using data from the Quality Improvement Demonstration Study (QIDS) on children under 5 years old residing in the … central regions of the Philippines. Several policy implications are drawn, with emphasis placed on demand-side interventions …

Philippines. Partly to address this problem, the government has undertaken programs to expand access to safe water and sanitation …

like their own, even if they can afford to send these children to school. … biases. Here, we investigate if school attendance of young household members aged 6-12 years old varies with their kinship … ties to the household heads in the Philippines. Applying probit regression techniques on a dataset culled from the five …

on a sub-sample of households with children below five years old from the Philippine National Demographic and Health … proportion of under-5 children afflicted with diarrhea. In the instrumental-variable probit model, we find that households have a … proportion of under-5 children with diarrhea. Ignoring the simultaneity yields the misleading result that water treatment …

aims to constitute a milestone for MNCH equity analyses in the Philippines ... …