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 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 …

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 …

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 …

the crisis on poverty in the Philippines. The result of this study would serve as inputs to policymakers in prioritizing … Philippines were selected to serve as poverty observatories or sentinel sites for monitoring the impact of the global crisis … is important to monitor the impact of this global crisis on poverty. This study, therefore, aims to assess the impact of …

The Philippines has been posting progress in terms of poverty reduction since the early 1990s. However, reversal in the … trend was observed in 2006. Further worsening of the poverty situation is expected given the various economic and natural … Expenditure Survey (FIES) and Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS) from 2003 to 2008, this paper examined the movements in and …

This paper reviews the current state of and challenges facing social protection in the Philippines. It describes the …

Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up further to … 26.5 percent in 2009. Although this aggregate poverty rate shows only a few percentage points change from 2003 to 2009 …, this does not mean there are no movements in and out of poverty. Based on a matched panel data obtained from three survey …