done to make development more inclusive. -- Poverty ; Welfare ; Human Development ; Philippines …That poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon is no longer debatable. What remains a contentious issue is whether the … of poverty. This study employs the Alkire-Foster aggregation methodology, which preserves the "dashboard" of dimensions …

This paper analyzes the impact of trade reform on welfare and poverty in the Philippines in the 1990s using a CGE model …. The results indicate that while welfare rises and poverty falls for all household groups except the poorest (those with … reduction in poverty in the latter. Since poverty remains high and the disparity between rural and urban poverty is still wide …

This study begins with an overview of the poverty situation in the Philippines. It then takes a brief look at the poor … the relationship among trade, poverty and the structural transformation of the Philippine economy …

of poverty episodes experienced by a household. Using panel data from the Philippines, we examine the differences between …This study reviews two methods of measuring poverty dynamics. The components approach uses the longitudinally averaged … these analytical methods of measuring chronic and transient poverty. Furthermore, the study also examines the sensitivity of …

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 …

We simulate the impact of actual food price increase between June 2006 and June 2008 on poverty across different areas … households, the opposite is true for the poverty gap and poverty severity measures, because poor agricultural households are …

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 …

, poverty statistics in the Philippines have recently become not only as the means of identifying the most deprived regions or … archipelagic country like the Philippines, will become increasingly characterized by added poverty and vulnerability. -- urban …Constrained by resource limitations and challenged by the increasing incidence of poverty in the country, the …

This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different … poverty. We compare the actual differential in poverty with the gap that remains after disadvantaged ethnic groups are given …