surveys in selected cities of Metro Manila (urban) and Rosario, Batangas (rural), respectively. Key findings of this paper are … occupation among PWDs in the urban area is masseur while farmer/farm worker/livestock and poultry raiser in the rural area … needs improvement.This paper examines the employment profile of PWDs in the Philippines using the 2008 and 2010 disability …

in Rosario, Batangas in 2010, where 106 PWDs from 31 barangays were interviewed.Some of the major findings of the survey … (72%) in Metro Manila (who are usually masseurs), the hearing-impaired has the highest employment rate (58%) in Rosario … Philippine Institute for Development Studies collaborated to undertake a similar study in a rural area. The survey was conducted …

This paper examined how PWDs in the Philippines make a living and determined the factors that influenced them to select … PWDs engage in and their association with levels of education. Using dataset from the pioneering survey on socioeconomic … conditions of PWDs in selected cities in Metro Manila, Philippines conducted in 2008, econometric analyses were conducted. The …

by education, occupation and employment were calculated for alcohol- and non-alcohol-related causes of death. A … economically inactive. A good education and sophisticated vocational skills are important protective factors for alcohol problems …

employment outcomes. In the Philippines, not even half (36%) of the surveyed PWD women in selected cities in Metro Manila and … Rosario, Batangas reported that they were engaged in an economic activity (Tabuga and Mina 2011). The most typical jobs of … at the employment profile of adult women with disability in San Remigio and Mandaue City in Cebu, Philippines. Using the …

strategies used by households in response to natural disasters in the Philippines. It used data from the 2011 CBMS Household … strategies; b) some empirical studies have been done in the Philippines analyzing the aforementioned interactions; c) relevant … Pasay City and other similarly situated urban areas in the country, natural disasters have a negative impact on household …

factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that … their own water and sanitation schemes, not just in rural areas but in urban ones as well. There are definite advantages to …

The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with … grow as fast as food price index. This can shift optimal rural population density to lower level, causing migration to … population density and rural density declines further due to low fertility and migration to cities. Those factors limited the …

I studied the determinants of migration from urban Ethiopia to other countries, to rural areas and to other urban areas … household members abroad. Human capital variables like age and education matter only for the two internal migrations. While the …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions …