Poverty - Matches
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Poverty incidence has been declining in the Philippines over the past 10 years. However, with the advent of the Asian crisis in 1997, there was a reve..
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The Philippines, having been integrated into the global economy, has not been spared from the financial crisis that hit Asia in July 1997. Pre-financi..
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Innovation in credit programs has alleviated poverty. The premise is that credit accessibility translates into productive activities that aid househol..
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Recent Philippine data indicate that the needs of the poor, which are met unsatisfactorily, include productive employment, access to quality education..
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This issue does not comment on the alleged role of microfinancial institutions in alleviating poverty. Neither does it discuss the supposed link betwe..
Policy Notes
Despite the government’s credit program approach, access of poor households to microfinancial services has remained limited. This paper explains the..
Philippine Journal of Development
Existing official poverty statistics cannot be directly utilized for cross-country comparison. This paper illustrates why. It presents an assessment o..
Philippine Journal of Development
Credit provision for small and poor households has always been the major element of nongovernment organizations in alleviating poverty. Recently, ther..
Philippine Journal of Development
This article takes credit finance into the level of microfinancing as an anti-poverty instrument. Given proper guidance as to its viability and..
Development Research News
Despite the government’s credit program approach, access of poor households to microfinancial services has remained limited. This paper explains the..
Discussion Papers
This paper provides a review of frameworks for analyzing poverty alleviation initiatives. The principles in these frameworks were used to guide the re..
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This paper reviews the Philippine structural adjustment and poverty alleviation experience. A review of the existing analyses of the impact of structu..
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The World Bank’s (WB) commitment to reduce poverty remains at the top of its agenda. In support of the government’s social reform agenda, WB assis..
Development Research News
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..
Discussion Papers
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