While economic growth is important for poverty reduction, the rather stellar performance of the Philippines in economic … growth has still not translated into reduction of poverty. This is in large part due to issues pertaining to distribution … processes. The study looks at trends in various statistics on poverty and income distribution, and then examines how disparities …

The theme of the 2011 Philippines development report is 'generating inclusive growth, uplifting the poor and vulnerable …'. This theme is follows from the priorities set in President Aquino's Social Contract and the emerging 2011-2016 Philippines … Development Plan (PDP). The PDP details the vision of inclusive growth and poverty reduction that underlies the social contract …

The main driver of poverty reduction has shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural income growth in rural … Philippines in the past two decades. Agricultural growth is still relatively more important (vis-à-vis non-agricultural growth …), however, in reducing rural poverty in relatively more isolated provinces. Our results suggest that agricultural investments …

While the poverty reductions in the Philippines in 2012–2018 are modest compared to what Vietnam, China or Indonesia … decomposition of poverty and inequality in 2000–2018 using official national household surveys. We find the growth since 2012 …, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas …

This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at … understand the relationships while accounting for the nature of growth. Moreover, the poverty elasticity of output growth was … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in poverty …