That poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon is no longer debatable. What remains a contentious issue is whether the various dimensions of individual deprivation should be aggregated--and how these are to be aggregated--into a summary measure of poverty.This study employs the Alkire-Foster...

The main driver of poverty reduction has shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural income growth in rural Philippines in the past two decades. Agricultural growth is still relatively more important (vis-à-vis non-agricultural growth), however, in reducing rural poverty in relatively more...

The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms by which agricultural development changes the economic welfare of the various groups of population in...

Recent research papers employing cross-national regressions report that the incomes of the poor move one-for-one with overall average incomes, suggesting that poverty reduction requires nothing much more than promoting rapid economic growth. This paper attempts to probe beneath cross-country...

This paper examines the interaction among economic growth, inequality in land distribution, and poverty reduction. Following the familiar neoclassical growth model approach, it attempts to explain the variations in mean income growth rates, as well as in rates of poverty reduction, accross...

Information about demand patterns and how they are likely to change as prices and income change is an extremely important input into the estimation of the welfare and distributional impact of technological change (or, alternatively, of economic policies). This paper employs the Deaton and...

The first part of the paper describe the character of poverty alleviation during the second half of the 1980s. It shows that much of the (limited) poverty alleviation achieved during this period is attributable to intrasectoral improvement in the distribution of living standards. The relative...

Rapid agricultural growth has been suggested as an alternative development strategy for less-developed countries. The paper shows that rapid agricultural growth, as demonstrated by the Philippine experience in the 1960s and 1970s, is not enough to pull the rural poor out of poverty. Economic...

The paper uses household expenditure pattern to estimate equivalence scales for the cost of children in Philippine rural and urban areas. It then employs these estimates in determining aggregate poverty. The paper shows that the practice of assessing aggregate poverty based on total household...

If the main objective of poverty measurement is to inform policy choices for reducing absolute poverty across space and over time, then the current practice to poverty comparison falls short of adequately informing those choices. What is known, based on official poverty data, about spatial...