That poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon is no longer debatable. What remains a contentious issue is whether the various dimensions of individual deprivation should be aggregated--and how these are to be aggregated--into a summary measure of poverty.This study employs the Alkire-Foster...

The main driver of poverty reduction has shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural income growth in rural Philippines in the past two decades. Agricultural growth is still relatively more important (vis-à-vis non-agricultural growth), however, in reducing rural poverty in relatively more...

The official poverty data fall short of properly informing public policy and governance concerning the progress, or lack of it, in achieving the country’s commitment of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the incidence of poverty and hunger. Imposing consistency in poverty estimation shows that...

Anecdotal evidence permeates accounts on the impact of the global economic crisis (GEC) on Philippine poverty. This study systematically assesses the evidence and recent data. It adopts a somewhat eclectic approach, applying regression and decomposition techniques to trace the GEC impact on GDP...

Usual indicators of intertemporal rural performance are technically flawed mainly because of the shifting of the physical area of the rural sector as population grows and/or economic activity expands. The problem is illustrated using Philippine poverty data. The paper also shows that the rural...

This paper employs rent-seeking and public choice theory to explain the observation that land reform experience in the Philippines as well as in many other developing countries did not provide some degree of support for historical generalization as the East Asian experience. The analysis...

The paper provides a consistent set of estimates of poverty incidence in the Philippines, investigates the determinants of rural household welfare, and explores empirically an important aspect of the so-called poverty targeting problem. Regression techniques are employed to explain (i) regional...

The paper provides an economic assessment of the state of inter-island shipping in the Philippines, with emphasis on the efficiency implications of the industry's structure and the regulatory policies supporting the industry's organization. It is argued that the maze of regulatory policies...

Recent research papers employing cross-national regressions report that the incomes of the poor move one-for-one with overall average incomes, suggesting that poverty reduction requires nothing much more than promoting rapid economic growth. This paper attempts to probe beneath cross-country...

This paper examines the interaction among economic growth, inequality in land distribution, and poverty reduction. Following the familiar neoclassical growth model approach, it attempts to explain the variations in mean income growth rates, as well as in rates of poverty reduction, accross...