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This paper aims to explore the determinants of household income and expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are benefiting from economic development. Using regression analysis, five factors were examined: (1) location of the household, (2) access to infrastructure, (3) changes in rice...
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premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
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Socioeconomic disparities run deep in the Philippines, but the COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated these inequities. Globally, there is a renewed sense of urgency to break these inequities and place social justice at the front and center of the post-COVID recovery. Social justice is about...
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to address the many facets of poverty. The 4Ps is by far the largest poverty reduction and social development program the … alleviate their immediate needs and aims to "break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human capital." As …
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In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other … Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded …
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Philippines, we show that children in households that receive cash transfers from 4Ps, the country's flagship anti-poverty program …
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social inequality. In this study, I used data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to describe trends in educational … amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by …
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