and the Philippines, irrespective of the poverty measures used. At the national level, all countries reduced their … poverty measures based on counting approaches using ordinal variables to the understanding of the evolution of poverty in … Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Using the general framework proposed by Silber and Yalonetzky (2013), this paper …

. However, the massive identification has led to the enrollment of more members than official poverty estimates, resulting in …

evidence behind this? This article seeks to address this question. It finds that in the Philippines, higher LMWs: (i) are …; and (iv) tend to ironically reduce average income and raise household poverty rate. These results illustrate how rapid …

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 …

study reviews recent trends in the rice market, and assesses the poverty and distributional effects of rice tariffication … Philippines and exporting countries, imports of rice have surged under tariffication. As a result, domestic prices have fallen … and palay prices. The price and associated economic adjustments are expected to cause an increase in income poverty as …

Poverty simulations suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented by the government to contain the …