Poverty - Matches
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Using data from the 2003 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and 2005 community-based monitoring system for a city, Multivariate Adaptive Regression ..
Philippine Journal of Development
This paper presents a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both food and nonfood poverty thresholds. ..
Philippine Journal of Development
Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue. And with a relatively young popul..
Discussion Papers
Regional Integration, Inclusive Growth, and Poverty: Enhancing Employment Opportunities for the Poor
Regional economic integration in East Asia is characterized initially as a market-driven process of increased trade and foreign direct investment infl..
Research Paper Series
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..
Press Releases
Over the last decade, there was a significant drop in mortality and morbidity cases attributed to tuberculosis (TB). The high TB Case Detection (CDR) ..
Discussion Papers
Competition agencies and nongovernmental organizations across the globe celebrated World Competition Day on December 5 under the theme "Impact of Cart..
Press Releases
The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing poverty incidence by half by next year will be unattainable even by 2025, according to a discussion..
In the News
EVEN if the national government invests heavily on poverty reduction through higher taxes and Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans, the Philipp..
In the News
The Philippines has made considerable progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, achieving all the targets remains a daun..
Discussion Papers
About 130 million people in Southeast Asia lack access to electricity. This was revealed by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) i..
Press Releases
This study analyzed the interactions between natural disasters and household poverty and discussed the coping strategies used by households in respons..
Discussion Papers
This paper aims to explore the determinants of household income and
expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are benefiting from economic
dev..
Discussion Papers
Here’s the paradox of growth in this country. From 2003 to 2009, the economy grew by an average of 4.8 percent. And yet, instead of decreasing with ..
In the News
This Policy Note provides a framework for analyzing the impact of natural disasters on household income and household poverty and empirically estimate..
Policy Notes
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