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Expanding Access to Improved Sanitation for the Poor : Insights from the Philippines
International Finance Corporation - 2018
The Philippines is home to around twenty five million of the 2.3 billion people worldwide who lack access to a basic … 2005, to undertake a three-part study that would assess the reasons why low income urban households in the Philippines … this study are to provide context for the sanitation conditions of low-income communities in the Philippines and to …
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Making Growth Work for the Poor : A Poverty Assessment for the Philippines
World Bank Group - 2018
addressing poverty, the Philippines is hindered by the limited expansion of its middle class. In the East Asia region over 2002 …-thirds, but the share in the Philippines increased from 37 percent to just 44 percent. The lack of well-paying jobs limited the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645348
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Republic of Philippines : Mindanao Skills Development Strategy for Poverty Reduction
World Bank Group - 2019
This report consolidates written outputs from the Technical Assistance to Support the Elaboration of Mindanao Human Resource Development (HRD) Strategy, which was requested by the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) and undertaken by the World Bank under the auspices of the Australia-World...
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Philippines Quarterly Update, January 2011 : Robust Growth, Stubborn Poverty
World Bank - 2011
policies, and lower financing costs. Historically, the Philippines have been exposed to considerable fiscal risks, in part … abated, they still remain sizeable in the Philippines. To improve its risk management, the government is pursuing a program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247603
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Identifying the vulnerable to poverty from natural disasters : the case of typhoons in the Philippines
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Kawasoe, Yasuhiro; Strobl, Eric; … - 2019
to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is employed to estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051783
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Guaranteed minimum income schemes in Europe : landscape and design
Coady, David P.; Jahan, Samir; Matsumoto, Riki; Shang, … - 2021
This paper provides an overview of the design of means-tested Guaranteed Minimum Income schemes, which constitute an important component of social protection systems in European countries. It discusses how key design features differ across countries, including how countries balance the primary...
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Assessing deprivation with an ordinal variable : theory and application to sanitation deprivation in Bangladesh
Seth, Suman; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2020
The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive...
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A European minimum wage : implications for poverty and macroeconomic imbalances
Detragiache, Enrica; Ebeke, Christian; Jirasavetakul, … - 2020
A hypothetical European Minimum Wage (MW) set at 60 percent of each country's median wage would reduce in-work poverty but have limited effects on overall poverty, as many poor households do not earn a wage near MW and higher unemployment, higher prices, and a loss of social insurance benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251363
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Republic of the Philippines Labor Market Review : Employment and Poverty
World Bank - 2016
This study analyzes labor market performance in the Philippines from the perspective of workers' welfare. It argues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644429
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Multidimensional Poverty in the Philippines, 2004-13 : Do Choices for Weighting, Identification and Aggregation Matter?
Datt, Gaurav - 2017
poverty in the Philippines to these choices by presenting estimates for three alternative weighting schemes and three measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246016