Over the past four decades, the Philippines has achieved significant advances in its growth performance and has … risen, the country’s record in terms of generating quality employment and reducing poverty and inequality has been …

-being, poverty reduction, human capital investment, saving, and regional development in the home country. Remittances appear to raise … of poverty. Analysis at the regional level shows that, ceteris paribus, remittances also appear to contribute importantly …

Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical … Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up … achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The disparities across the regions remain wide both in terms of poverty and …

Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest of the world is poverty and …This paper analyzes the poverty and inequality implications of removing agricultural and non-agricultural price … inequality reducing, whereas full domestic liberalization increases national poverty and inequality. Poverty declines while …