equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the possible poverty and distributional effects of the removal of QR and the reduction in … headcount poverty index, both the poverty gap and the squared poverty gap indices increase. The Gini coefficient increases as … inputs in the sector, lower factor prices in agriculture, and lower factor incomes for these households. Thus, poverty in …

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 …

poverty in the Philippines using household survey data. The clear implication of the results is that, in the case of the … Philippines, an active population policy aimed at restricting family size could have an important impact on poverty reduction. …This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to household poverty. It presents results from …

In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other … countries in the region, the Philippines is still behind. In the early years of the 21st century, more than a third of the … Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded …

This paper tries to characterize the current situation in the Philippines with respect to the goal of the Aquino … Philippines is far from being food secure. Looking at the food-trade balance at the macro level, it was noted that food security …

Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR). This decision is anchored on the expectation that the use of the …

This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences and family planning practice in the Philippines … practice poorer. This result indicates that, in the case of the Philippines, the larger number of children among the poor is …

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 … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in poverty …

-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 …