Philippines, we show that children in households that receive cash transfers from 4Ps, the country's flagship anti-poverty program …

include wealth as well as income. Their study of asset poverty in the United States between 1984 and 1999 focuses on the lower … end of the wealth distribution and shows that asset poverty rates did not decline during the period studied, and that the …Economic growth and a rising stock market in the 1990s gave the impression that everyone was accumulating wealth and …

and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect. …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in …

The implications of labor migration and remittances on poverty are becoming a global issue. The Philippines is … and how they contribute to poverty reduction. However, the studies particularly done for the Philippines are quite scarce … to analyze the sole effect of migration on poverty in the Philippines and to utilize three measures of poverty to …

Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …