Poverty - Matches

Despite the government鈥檚 credit program approach, access of poor households to microfinancial services has remained limited. This paper explains the..

This paper provides a review of frameworks for analyzing poverty alleviation initiatives. The principles in these frameworks were used to guide the re..

This paper reviews the Philippine structural adjustment and poverty alleviation experience. A review of the existing analyses of the impact of structu..

The World Bank鈥檚 (WB) commitment to reduce poverty remains at the top of its agenda. In support of the government鈥檚 social reform agenda, WB assis..

This study deals with the health care needs of rural poor in Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental. Focusing on small-scale farmers and fishermen, landless la..

This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementati..

This paper examines the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms by which agricultural development changes the economic welfare..

This paper attempts to identify a number of emerging population-relevant rural scenarios that require a more creative degree of understanding complex ..

The Philippines is emerging from the social ruins caused by decades of economic mismanagement and political dictatorship. The government can no..

Usual indicators of intertemporal rural performance are technically flawed mainly because of the 鈥渟hifting鈥� of the physical area of the rural sec..

Mainly due to the dearth of available data, this article empirically illustrates that the practice of using household expenditures/incomes in assessin..

What has not been explored in the traditional measures of poverty is the extensive set of categorical variables that indicate standard of living and a..

Sustainable development has been the unqualified framework for sound development policy and equity-oriented institutional arrangements. How do ..

Poverty has haunted Filipinos. Overtime, its figure has been mounting to an alarming scale. Why are we so poor? This article tells us why.