Poverty - Matches

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 “shifting” 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.

Despite high agricultural growth, the Philippine unemployed and underemployed has continued to swell. Rural poverty incidence has remained high and in..

The provision of decent housing to millions of Filipinos has always been the goal of the government. However, not much has been achieved. This ..

Against the background of weak agricultural sector and the resulting poverty in the rural sector, this study looks at the structure of rural household..

This second volume of the Summaries of Completed Research Projects is a compendium of the objectives, major findings and policy recommendations..

Utilizing data from surveys conducted in Albay, Camarines Sur and Sorsogon, this paper shows that a decline in farm income with the shift of wo..

No other issue since EDSA Revolution has so bitterly polarized the Philippine society than the proposed agrarian reform program. The landless,..

The sensitive issue of poverty made the past regime reluctant to make official estimates of poverty incidence. At best, there have been vague ..

This monograph updates two earlier compilations on poverty studies. Covering social science works from 1970-1983, this edition contains over 65..