households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …As one of the world's largest recipients of remittances, the Philippines received remittances roughly 12% of its gross … to the Philippines do not have a significant influence on other key items of consumption or investment such as spending …

The reduction of poverty is at the heart of the development agenda both nationally and globally. This is reflected in … the measurement of poverty is ex post and thus, public interventions are directed at helping those who have been … identified as poor, the government must broaden the scope of assessments and take account of the dynamics in poverty in public …

in the Philippines helped mitigate the poverty impact by allocating more fiscal resources to build local resilience while … natural disasters, this paper takes the case of the Philippines - among the most vulnerable countries in the world to such …