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levels and investigate sources of inequality in the Philippines from 2000 to 2012. Using SD techniques developed in Chow …
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capacity of rural households in Southeast Asia. In this study, we use assets to predict households' income generating capacity …
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of poverty episodes experienced by a household. Using panel data from the Philippines, we examine the differences between …
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The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and social equity-laden microcredit strategy for the impoverished agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Mindanao. It particularly examines the program design and implementation...
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poverty in the Philippines using household survey data. The clear implication of the results is that, in the case of the … Philippines, an active population policy aimed at restricting family size could have an important impact on poverty reduction. …
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In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other … countries in the region, the Philippines is still behind. In the early years of the 21st century, more than a third of the …
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prefernce effect and the substitution effect. Our empirical results in the Philippines shows the effects of preference change on …
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This research is one of the few attempts to analyze chronic and transient poverty in the Philippines. Results indicate … that poverty in the Philippines is largely comprised of chronic poverty with households in rural areas and Mindanao regions …
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Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias depends on how these...
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Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Using the general framework proposed by Silber and Yalonetzky (2013), this paper … Indonesia (1997, 2003 and 2007), and for the Philippines (1997, 2003 and 2008) by considering the deprivations in education … and the Philippines, irrespective of the poverty measures used. At the national level, all countries reduced their …
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