Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to … meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. This edition brings the unwelcome news that COVID-19 …, along with conflict and climate change, has not merely slowed global poverty reduction but reversed it for first time in …

to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is employed to estimate … from the regression model are then used to estimate ex ante household vulnerability to poverty (the likelihood that … household consumption falls below the poverty line) in the event of future natural disasters of different intensities …

This study analyzes labor market performance in the Philippines from the perspective of workers' welfare. It argues … that pervasive in-work poverty is the main challenge facing labor policy. Poverty is primarily due to low earning capacity … of in-work poverty - low education of the poor, and the scarcity of productive job opportunities. The labor market is …

The Philippines is home to around twenty five million of the 2.3 billion people worldwide who lack access to a basic … 2005, to undertake a three-part study that would assess the reasons why low income urban households in the Philippines … this study are to provide context for the sanitation conditions of low-income communities in the Philippines and to …

addressing poverty, the Philippines is hindered by the limited expansion of its middle class. In the East Asia region over 2002 …-paying job opportunities that trap the poor in poverty, generation after generation. Children from poor households start life at … disasters buffet the poor, whose limited means to cope and disproportionate suffering push them deeper into poverty. Poverty is …

redound to poverty reduction in the island-region. Launched in 2017, the World Bank's Mindanao Jobs Report presented a …

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 …

distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest of the world is poverty and …This paper analyzes the poverty and inequality implications of removing agricultural and non-agricultural price … inequality reducing, whereas full domestic liberalization increases national poverty and inequality. Poverty declines while …

policies, and lower financing costs. Historically, the Philippines have been exposed to considerable fiscal risks, in part … abated, they still remain sizeable in the Philippines. To improve its risk management, the government is pursuing a program …

variability of social capital as wealth. The analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from the literature on social … Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are … usually not included in national or global accounts of income and wealth. In the light of the estimated importance of social …