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 …

In terms of its impact on poverty, the recent economic crisis in the Philippines was more of an El Niño phenomenon than …

"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured … poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that … roles of certain private expenditures in poor settings and with data on national poverty lines. The authors propose a new …

explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible …