Income - Matches

What caused the worsening of the poverty situation in the Philippines from 2003 to 2006? What strategies and kind of interventions are called for? Rea..

This paper examines the influence of overseas remittances to patterns of family expenditures in the Philippines using a matched dataset of the Family ..

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 Famil..

A country’s population consists of persons at different ages and stages of their economic lifecycle. Those in the population that are incurring life..

Have age profiles of consumption and labor income in the Philippines changed from 1994 to 2002? What are the implications of the changes observed in t..

This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing a cross-sectional analysis of ..

This paper provides an overview of the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) system and then describes the methods and data used in the application of NTA ..

Being one of the world's largest recipients of overseas workers' remittances, the question is often asked as to how Filipino recipient families make u..

The study proposes an alternative means to the present manner of identifying eligible Philhealth beneficiaries through the use of three criteria, name..

Trade liberalization--particularly tariff reduction, which is the focus of this paper--triggers changes in both sectoral price ratios and domestic-for..

This article investigates the determinants of Philippine trade in commercial services, and makes an attempt to explain the historical trends and movem..

What's in store for us this year? Dr. Josef Yap provides us, in this issue, with yet another forecast for the year. He stresses, as he has done in eac..

Who benefits from the tariff reforms launched by the Philippine government from 1994-2000? On the basis of the results of his simulation runs, the aut..

This paper examines the effects of the reduction in tariff rates in the Philippines from 1994 to 2000 on unemployment, distribution and poverty using ..

In the past one and a half decades, the Philippine government pursued major economic policy reforms. One of the key focused areas is the trade sector...