, distribution and poverty using a CGE-microsimulation approach wherein the representative household assumption in the traditional …

In 2006, poverty incidence in the Philippines went up by 3 percentage points from 2003, marking a reversal against the … downward trend in previous poverty estimates. This upward trend went against expectations after the Philippine economy … further add to the already difficult work of reducing poverty. The MDG deadline looms ahead and time is running out in the …

This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income … poverty reduction in all areas not because of the improvement in household income, but because of the drop in consumer prices …

-Japan bilateral agreements on unemployment, income distribution and poverty. The results indicate contraction in agriculture but … industry. Unemployment in agriculture deteriorates while in industry improves. Thus income inequality worsens. However, poverty … has the least poverty incidence while rural has the highest. The generally favourable poverty effects are due to the …

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …

This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing … while heterogeneity was addressed by employing the Quantile Regression technique. Also, the FIES data on remittances was … more accurate estimate of remittances sent by family members working abroad and its effects. The study found that while …

the construction of poverty thresholds in Pakistan. …In this paper, we present a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both … food and nonfood poverty thresholds. Although one cannot completely eliminate the value judgments inherent in the …

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 … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

National Statistics Office administers the Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS). The APIS has been conducted in the years …