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In the effort to effectively monitor the progress or drawbacks in the fight against poverty to formulate more effective poverty reduction programs, th..

The quality of poverty estimates relies heavily on the data sources. One of the sources of data for poverty estimation in the Philippines is the retai..

In years when the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) is not conducted and when funds are available, the National Statistics Office administer..

Philippine cities provide the highest levels of service and living standards in the country. Much of what happens to the country in terms of productio..

This study reviews and evaluates the major contributory and noncontributory social protection programs that are currently in place as part of the gove..

This paper aims to review and assess protection afforded by the Social Security System and the Government Service Insurance System, two out of the thr..

Using data from a quick survey of various rural (RFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in East Asia, the paper tries to find out how those insti..

In a country where poverty is prevalent, a significant number of children are likely to be illiterate, malnourished, and prone to abuse and physical v..

The main feature in this issue points out the importance of recognizing the right of Filipino indigenous children to be culturally different from the ..

How does Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental measure up to the UN-MDG target of having access to safe drinking water available to 86.6 percent of a coun..

There is another kind of crisis that is equally devastating as the global economic and financial crisis, perhaps even more threatening, with mankinds ..

This note shows that unit labor costs, the most widely used measure of competitiveness, are equivalent to the labor share in output multiplied by a pr..

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In thi..

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberaliza..

The measurement of vulnerability, as in the probability that a household becomes poor, is concomitant to the analysis of poverty. To estimate househol..