different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle …

Is there a tradeoff between raising growth and reducing inequality and poverty? This paper reviews the theoretical and … empirical literature on the complex links between growth, inequality, and poverty, with causation going in both directions. The … evidence suggests that growth can be effective in reducing poverty, but its impact on inequality is ambiguous and depends on …

Over the past decades ASEAN countries have experienced rapid economic growth accompanied by a dramatic fall in poverty …

Income distribution in the Philippines is highly uneven, and poverty rates are higher than in other ASEAN countries. In … addition, although the poverty rate has declined over time, the rate of decline has been lower than in other countries, and …

the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a …Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …

participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap, as well as on aggregate economic outcomes. The model is estimated using …, and further widens gender gaps in formal employment and wages. Simultaneously implementing such policies with formal job …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …