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 …

The reduction of poverty is at the heart of the development agenda both nationally and globally. This is reflected in … the measurement of poverty is ex post and thus, public interventions are directed at helping those who have been … identified as poor, the government must broaden the scope of assessments and take account of the dynamics in poverty in public …

Poverty simulations suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented by the government to contain the …

In this paper, we present a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both … food and non-food poverty thresholds. Although one cannot completely eliminate the value judgments inherent in the … construction of poverty thresholds, this model helps to make the ad hoc assumptions that are generally made more justifiable. The …

Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical … Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up … achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The disparities across the regions remain wide both in terms of poverty and …