poverty, especially in rural areas and among the unemployed, self-employed, and rural low-educated. The Philippines is found …Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade … detailed economywide computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to run a series of policy experiments. They find that poverty …

When assessing the impact of changes in food prices on poverty, it is important to consider food producers (who may … increase in the price of rice will result in higher poverty in the country as a whole (even if some local producers will gain … from this increase), while a reduction in price will reduce poverty. Furthermore, because rice represents a large share of …

poverty in the Philippines to these choices by presenting estimates for three alternative weighting schemes and three measures …Multidimensional poverty comparisons can be sensitive to the choice of welfare indicators, the weights assigned to the … indicators, as well as the aggregate poverty measure used. This paper examines the robustness of trends in multidimensional …

Philippines’ health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys, health spending increased by 150 percent … health spending has also increased and, in 2012, out-of-pocket spending on health added 1.5 percentage points to the poverty …

Philippines. The results suggest that the impact of the crisis was modest, leading to a five percent reduction in average living … standards, and a nine percent increase in the incidence of poverty - with larger increases indicated for the depth, and severity … of poverty. The greater shock came from El Nino, rather than through the labor market. The labor market shock was …

This paper summarizes the approach used to estimate monetary poverty for Pakistan in 2019-20 at the district level. The … instead of a census as the target data offers additional information for modeling poverty, but it also comes at the expense of … noise due to sampling. Monetary poverty rates are estimated for 126 districts in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and …

longitudinal surveys and the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion framework to analyze recent temporal trends in absolute … multidimensional poverty across the 27 countries in the European Union and its subregions. The analysis quantifies the extent …, composition, and factors associated with the higher risks of multidimensional poverty across four countries (Bulgaria, Romania …

In the fiscal year 2018/19, 21.9 percent of the population in Pakistan lived below the national poverty line. Since … ascertain the implications of these different shocks on household welfare and poverty. Up-to-date welfare information is crucial … household survey with high-frequency macro indicators to produce nowcasts and forecasts of poverty. The tool models household …

risk of poverty or deeper impoverishment due to structural factors and risks, particularly climate-related events. The … populations of Peru, Colombia, and Honduras exhibit the highest levels of vulnerability to climate-induced poverty in relative … drive most households into poverty, climate-related events exert a disproportionately severe impact on welfare when they …