Poverty - Matches

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Philippines marks its fifth year of implementation in 2013 since its inception in 2008. The first..

The bottom-up budgeting (BUB) process is one of the major reform initiatives of the Aquino administration and has been tagged as such from several per..

An increase in world prices of agricultural commodities has nuanced impacts: good for the nation's economy but bad for the poor. Professor German Cal..

The Philippines has recently experienced economic growth despite the global economic slowdown. But there are people who wonder why economic growth has..

While economic growth is important for poverty reduction, the rather stellar performance of the Philippines in economic growth has still not translate..

The number of children living in poverty in the Philippines continues to climb despite the country`s recent economic gains. According to a study titl..

Helping poor but deserving students get a college degree is one way to break the cycle of poverty. The question, however, is how these scholars should..

This issue of the Development Research News mainly features the observance of the 12th Development Policy Research Month which the Institute spearhead..

Impact evaluation in the Philippines is getting a boost with the government, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation or 3ie, and the Asian ..

The stellar economic growth in the country since 2012 has not been subsequently accompanied by a significant reduction in poverty or by increased empl..

This paper presents a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both food and nonfood poverty thresholds. ..

Using data from the 2003 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and 2005 community-based monitoring system for a city, Multivariate Adaptive Regression ..

Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue. And with a relatively young popul..

Regional economic integration in East Asia is characterized initially as a market-driven process of increased trade and foreign direct investment infl..

The poverty situation in the country did not significantly improve despite of the six-percent economic growth posted from 2003 to 2006. This was rev..