levels and investigate sources of inequality in the Philippines from 2000 to 2012. Using SD techniques developed in Chow …

of poverty episodes experienced by a household. Using panel data from the Philippines, we examine the differences between … these analytical methods of measuring chronic and transient poverty. Furthermore, the study also examines the sensitivity of … estimates of poverty dynamics to measurement pa rameters. While I find that both the components and spells approaches suggest …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show … that the direction of the bias depends on how these measures use individual data to determine the poverty status of …

and the Philippines, irrespective of the poverty measures used. At the national level, all countries reduced their … poverty measures based on counting approaches using ordinal variables to the understanding of the evolution of poverty in … Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Using the general framework proposed by Silber and Yalonetzky (2013), this paper …

The Philippines has been participating in preferential and multilateral trade liberalization since the 1990s. However …, the poverty effects of these trading arrangements are not yet fully known. This paper, which uses a computable general … instrumental in reducing poverty in the country. It also shows that the relatively poor and less-skilled household groups, like …

, Philippines. A total of 629 households were surveyed using the Community-based Monitoring System (CBMS) instrument. The poverty …This study aimed to determine relationship between poverty intensity and livelihood assets classified as natural … intensity was based on the official poverty line measurement in the country. This served as the basis for estimation of the …

poverty reduction shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural growth in the Philippines, but agricultural investments can be …

Since the early 1980s, the Philippines have undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha round of WTO … CGE model is used to run a series of policy experiments. Poverty is found to increase slightly with the implementation of … demand for Philippines agricultural exports. The impacts of full liberalization - involving free world trade and complete …

-based transfer scheme among municipalities and cities in the Philippines. The results suggest that the household disposable income … Philippine local governments. However, the poverty rate has increased by approximately five percentage points in the long run …. The income gains, associated with higher poverty rates, mainly occur in small and less-developed local governments (i …