Mainly due to the dearth of available data, this article empirically illustrates that the practice of using household expenditures/incomes in assessing aggregate poverty tends to its overestimation. In the absence of reliable equivalence estimates, household size should be normalized to improve...

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños on August 13-14, 1985. It develops a framework for explaining the nonmarket to market transitions. In particular, this framework is used to generate specific hypotheses...

What has not been explored in the traditional measures of poverty is the extensive set of categorical variables that indicate standard of living and are already available from existing survey data. What precluded researchers from deriving poverty and welfare gauges from these data is the...

This article models the small LDC bankers’ profit maximizing and decisionmaking processes in addressing policy actions. Its implications are useful for future policy reforms.

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños on August 13-14, 1985. It considers block-recursiveness in a simple household model under different market regimes. Analysis shows conservatism of farm households with respect to...

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños on August 13-14, 1985. It outlines the features of the computable general equilibrium developed by the author and describes the modifications undertaken to fit the model into...

This article surveys existing forecasting models in the Philippines and discusses several promising alternatives in the process of developing a methodological modeling. Investigation of CGE models leads to the findings of the absence of population-environment interactions.

This paper tests the causality issue between defense spending and economic growth in the Philippines. The results of the tests are used to provide implications for Philippine policy development.

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños on August 13-14, 1985. It addresses some econometric issues arising in production analysis. It also discusses the following issues: the model selection, the use of panel data and...

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños on August 13-14, 1985. It reviews the consumer theory and demand system and the econometric issues in utilizing household level data. It also reviews the Philippine estimates and...