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Are We Winning the Fight against Poverty? An Assessment of the Poverty Situation in the Philippines
Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D.; Reyes, Celia M.; … - 2010
In 2006, poverty incidence in the Philippines went up by 3 percentage points from 2003, marking a reversal against the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421186
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Chronic and Transient Poverty
Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D.; Reyes, Celia M.; … - 2010
The Philippines has been posting progress in terms of poverty reduction since the early 1990s. However, reversal in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421189
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Employment Choices of Persons with Disability (PWDs) in Metro Manila
Mina, Christian D. - 2010
This paper examined how PWDs in the Philippines make a living and determined the factors that influenced them to select … conditions of PWDs in selected cities in Metro Manila, Philippines conducted in 2008, econometric analyses were conducted. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421192
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Persons with Disability (PWDs) in Rural Philippines: Results from the 2010 Field Survey in Rosario, Batangas
Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D.; Reyes, Celia M.; … - 2011
In an effort to complement the 2008 disability survey conducted in Metro Manila, the University of Tokyo and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies collaborated to undertake a similar study in a rural area. The survey was conducted in Rosario, Batangas in 2010, where 106 PWDs from 31...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421212
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Dynamics of Poverty in the Philippines: Distinguishing the Chronic from the Transient Poor
Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D.; Reyes, Celia M.; … - 2011
Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up further to 26.5 percent in 2009. Although this aggregate poverty rate shows only a few percentage points change from 2003 to 2009, this does not mean there are no movements in and out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421217
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Disability and Gender: The Case of the Philippines
Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D. - 2011
Philippines. The goal is to illustrate the gender disparities and to draw useful insights on how stakeholders can address this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421234
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Profitable use of SCF in a policy context : the case of rice stockholding in the Philippines
Reyes, Celia M.; Mina, Christian D. - 2009
This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing its mandates of buying high and selling low. Because the Philippine agriculture is greatly affected by extreme climate events such as El Niño and La Niña, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003834945
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Profiling poverty with multivariate adaptive regression splines
Mina, Christian D.; Barrios, Erniel B. - 2009
, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) is used in identifying household poverty correlates in the Philippines. Models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914020
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Chronic and transient poverty
Reyes, Celia M.; Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D.; … - 2010 - (revised)
The Philippines has been posting progress in terms of poverty reduction since the early 1990s. However, reversal in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796159
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Employment choices of persons with disability (PWDs) in Metro Manila
Mina, Christian D. - 2010
This paper examined how PWDs in the Philippines make a living and determined the factors that influenced them to select … conditions of PWDs in selected cities in Metro Manila, Philippines conducted in 2008, econometric analyses were conducted. The … livelihood to, as well as empowerment of, PWDs. -- Disability ; Philippines ; Labor force participation ; Employment ; Occupation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796161