Program's Self-Employment Assistance Kaunlaran (SLP SEA-K). The SLP SEA-K uses a microcredit strategy which intends to provide …-generating activities. Microcredit services are generally believed to have a positive socioeconomic impact; however, the success of projects … capacity to handle microcredit programs. Additionally, they see the one-size-fits-all strategy of the program as a problem …

recommend that for microfinance programs to be effective as a poverty-alleviation tool there is a need to review and constantly … Philippines. RMFP aimed to support efforts of the Government of the Philippines to strengthen rural financial institutions by … quasi-experimental design with incoming clients of randomly selected participating microfinance institutions as the …

evidence behind this? This article seeks to address this question. It finds that in the Philippines, higher LMWs: (i) are …; and (iv) tend to ironically reduce average income and raise household poverty rate. These results illustrate how rapid …

poverty in the Philippines using household survey data. The clear implication of the results is that, in the case of the … Philippines, an active population policy aimed at restricting family size could have an important impact on poverty reduction. …This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to household poverty. It presents results from …

evidence behind this? This article seeks to address this question. It finds that in the Philippines, higher LMWs: (i) are …; and (iv) tend to ironically reduce average income and raise household poverty rate. These results illustrate how rapid …

The population and poverty nexus is not new but remains an important development issue for many countries. Recent … research has added the crucial dimension of vulnerability to poverty to the debate on the determinants of the welfare status of … welfare in the Philippines. In particular, it shows results of cross-tabulation and multivariate analyses of the role of …