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 isolated provinces. Our results suggest that agricultural investments …

done to make development more inclusive. -- Poverty ; Welfare ; Human Development ; Philippines …That poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon is no longer debatable. What remains a contentious issue is whether the … of poverty. This study employs the Alkire-Foster aggregation methodology, which preserves the "dashboard" of dimensions …

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 isolated provinces. Our results suggest that agricultural investments …

agriculture a key pillar in the country’s pursuit of inclusive growth, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. …

The purpose of this paper is to establish some basic facts about income inequality in the Philippines, with a special …

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 the poverty trend is actually even more alarming than what the official …