The Philippines has undertaken substantial trade-policy reforms since the 1980s. However, the poverty impact is not … very clear and has been the subject of intense debate, most crucial of which is the likely poverty effects of liberalizing … increases. The national poverty headcount decreases marginally as lower consumer prices outweigh the income reduction …

Proposals peddled to address the poverty problem are plenty-and keep growing. At one end of the spectrum are proposals …-growth path is prescribed as all that is needed to lick the poverty problem. At the other end are proposals asserting that the … poverty problem is nothing but a concrete manifestation of gross economic and social inequities. Redistributing wealth and …

Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical … focuses on agriculture because it plays a central role in the poverty condition that continues to persist despite recent … Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up …

methods that permit year-round employment, expanding immigrant populations in nonmetropolitan counties, and growing concerns … sections on legal status, poverty, housing, and use of social services. …

relationship between trade (exports) and employment and how the relationship reduces poverty through the instrumentality of … employment to reduce poverty, while agricultural trade, particularly exports, are capable of reducing poverty and inequality in … between export trade, employment and poverty reduction in Nigeria. …