The population and poverty nexus is not new but remains an important development issue for many countries. Recent … research has added the crucial dimension of vulnerability to poverty to the debate on the determinants of the welfare status of … welfare in the Philippines. In particular, it shows results of cross-tabulation and multivariate analyses of the role of …

This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences and family planning practice in the Philippines … practice poorer. This result indicates that, in the case of the Philippines, the larger number of children among the poor is …

children they may bear since the intensity of their poverty as measured by average income to poverty ratio and food consumption … program to succeed, it must be part of an anti poverty strategy. …