Data from the Philippines are used to measure impacts of technical progress in lowland agriculture on upland forests …

This paper investigates the factors affecting rice production and technical efficiency of rice farmers in Philippines …

change in rice price on the one hand, and poverty and food insecurity (measured by calorie intake) on the other, are … increase in the real income of consumers following lower prices for a staple food, the poverty rate is calculated to fall from … 0.24 to 0.16. The measures of poverty gap and poverty severity are also expected to fall, by 0.07 and 0.26 respectively …

This paper examines the mechanisms that transmit isolation into poverty in Madagascar using household survey data … poverty in rural Madagascar increases with remoteness; (b) yields of major staple crops fall considerably as one gets farther …

. Using an econometric regression for studying the poverty reduction impacts of rural electrification in the Philippines, we … also find evidence of a positive relationship between rural electrification and poverty reduction. However, in order to …

stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines) and one mature one (in India). Being … latecomers to offshoring work, the PRC and the Philippines have developed this industry in cooperation with multinational … Philippines has relied on MNEs to come in and set up facilities, with domestic firms setting up facilities where lower (knowledge …