The Philippine government shows its serious effort to combat poverty through the continuing expansion of the Pantawid … American countries. The 4Ps by far is the most comprehensive and also controversial poverty reduction program of the Philippine …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

The goal of the welfare state is the redistribution of income in order to reduce poverty and reduce inequality. Income … inequality and relative poverty are often cited as major policy concerns, and are tracked by economists. Economists and policy … makers also value measures of absolute poverty as it more closely tracks the actual well being of the poor. Some studies have …

Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in … poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum … wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A better tool for reducing poverty, and at lower cost, is the earned …