While the poverty reductions in the Philippines in 2012–2018 are modest compared to what Vietnam, China or Indonesia … decomposition of poverty and inequality in 2000–2018 using official national household surveys. We find the growth since 2012 …, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas …

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the minimum wage valorization policy to the reduction in poverty that … occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its … contributed to a 38.2% reduction in the proportion of impoverished people, a 39.4% reduction in the intensity of poverty and 40 …

Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper … proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition … of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by Alkire and colleagues. This makes it possible to assess a vast …

This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different … poverty. We compare the actual differential in poverty with the gap that remains after disadvantaged ethnic groups are given …

, poverty statistics in the Philippines have recently become not only as the means of identifying the most deprived regions or … archipelagic country like the Philippines, will become increasingly characterized by added poverty and vulnerability. -- urban …Constrained by resource limitations and challenged by the increasing incidence of poverty in the country, the …

The Philippines has undertaken substantial trade-policy reforms since the 1980s. However, the poverty impact is not … very clear and has been the subject of intense debate, most crucial of which is the likely poverty effects of liberalizing … increases. The national poverty headcount decreases marginally as lower consumer prices outweigh the income reduction …

We simulate the impact of actual food price increase between June 2006 and June 2008 on poverty across different areas … households, the opposite is true for the poverty gap and poverty severity measures, because poor agricultural households are …

Since the early 1980s, the Philippines have undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha round of WTO … CGE model is used to run a series of policy experiments. Poverty is found to increase slightly with the implementation of … demand for Philippines agricultural exports. The impacts of full liberalization - involving free world trade and complete …