Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue …. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … poverty through data collected from national surveys and administrative records of government agencies. The estimations show …

Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical … Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up … achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The disparities across the regions remain wide both in terms of poverty and …

policies, and lower financing costs. Historically, the Philippines have been exposed to considerable fiscal risks, in part … abated, they still remain sizeable in the Philippines. To improve its risk management, the government is pursuing a program …

update our understanding of the nature of poverty and the recent progress in poverty reduction in the Philippines. It …This report is intended as an input into the Philippine Government's poverty eradication strategy. The report aims to … examines the extent to which growth in the nineties has translated into poverty reduction and analyzes how well publicly …

the most vulnerable countries to climatic shifts, this paper aims to contribute to poverty studies in the Philippines by … that points to climate change resulting in altered patterns of weather parameters and given that the Philippines is one of … analyzing the poverty-rainfall shock nexus. The paper finds that rainfall shocks affect wages and income, which in turn, affect …