The Philippines has set an ambitious goal of becoming a predominantly middle-class society free of poverty by 2040 … as poverty reduction or redistribution. This background paper for the 2024 Philippine Institute for Development Studies … Annual Public Policy Conference (APPC) provides an updated profile of the Philippine middle-class. Using an income …

processes. The study looks at trends in various statistics on poverty and income distribution, and then examines how disparities …While economic growth is important for poverty reduction, the rather stellar performance of the Philippines in economic … growth has still not translated into reduction of poverty. This is in large part due to issues pertaining to distribution …

although income poverty among children in general has improved over the years, recent estimates show that there are more poor … Filipino children at present than a few years back. It was able to establish that income indicators alone could not capture the … faced by the Filipino child. The report also highlighted that beyond disparities surrounding income and gender …

of poverty rate to growth is higher when income distribution is less unequal. -- poverty ; decomposition ; inequality …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 …

; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of …

definition of the middle-income class, laying down seven income classes based on the national poverty lines. It also profiles the … reducing poverty and in making growth more inclusive. This paper examines trends in macroeconomic statistics, and the progress … address the lack of political inclusion. It also looks into income distribution and income inequality; and proposes a …