competitiveness for poverty reduction and boosted shared prosperity, while achieving other development outcomes such as better …

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 …

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 …

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 assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …