Inequality - Matches

State think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) launched its newest book focusing on the country’s response to the COVID-19 pan..

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic hit the Philippine economy and society unprecedentedly. To protect the people, the government had to ..

Passed in 2019, the Rice Tariffication Law (Republic Act [RA] 11203) aims to reduce the price of the country’s key staple. It also mandates an annua..

The Philippines is generally winning its fight against poverty as the magnitude and incidence of poverty, income gap, and severity of poverty have all..

This study presents the indications of the presence of a digital divide in Asia through indicators for the region and selected Asian countries. The di..

Poverty vulnerability has been particularly recognized in the wake of the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that is likely to yield declines ..

The New Globalization has reached the Philippine shores. To assist the country in crafting relevant policies on this phenomenon, the fifth Annual Publ..

The last issue of the Development Research News this 2019 features the highlights of the fifth Annual Public Policy Conference (APPC), zeroing in on t..

While new technologies have enhanced connectivity, increased productivity, and benefited trade, they have also exacerbated income inequality within an..

In one way or another, doing day-to-day activities as well as complex and more challenging tasks has been significantly easier because of technologica..

Worsening inequality: While new technologies have improved connectivity, increased productivity, and benefited trade, they have also exacerbated incom..

The world economy has undergone at least three waves of globalization; currently the fourth wave is on-going, sweeping away old certainties are being ..

A PIDS study found that there are significant inequalities in opportunities in accessing basic services such as education and access to safe water and..

A PIDS study found significant inequalities in opportunities in accessing basic services within and among ethnic groups in the Philippines. Muslims (p..

This paper defines the middle-income class as those whose per capita incomes are within two- and twelve- times the (official) poverty line. Descriptiv..