This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at … understand the relationships while accounting for the nature of growth. Moreover, the poverty elasticity of output growth was … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in poverty …

Anecdotal evidence permeates accounts on the impact of the global economic crisis (GEC) on Philippine poverty. This … crisis on the economy and poverty across population groups was nonetheless severe - and may linger for many years to come. …

Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure, and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

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 …

This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income … poverty reduction in all areas not because of the improvement in household income, but because of the drop in consumer prices …

This paper examines the effects of the reduction in tariff rates in the Philippines from 1994 to 2000 on unemployment …, distribution and poverty using a CGE-microsimulation approach wherein the representative household assumption in the traditional …

This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about … the need not only to monitor current poverty, but also to reduce future poverty. An assessment of the trends in household … vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006. Measurement of household vulnerability is based on the …

In 2006, poverty incidence in the Philippines went up by 3 percentage points from 2003, marking a reversal against the … downward trend in previous poverty estimates. This upward trend went against expectations after the Philippine economy … further add to the already difficult work of reducing poverty. The MDG deadline looms ahead and time is running out in the …