Poverty - Matches

Regional economic integration in East Asia is characterized initially as a market-driven process of increased trade and foreign direct investment infl..

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..

Over the last decade, there was a significant drop in mortality and morbidity cases attributed to tuberculosis (TB). The high TB Case Detection (CDR) ..

Competition agencies and nongovernmental organizations across the globe celebrated World Competition Day on December 5 under the theme "Impact of Cart..

The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing poverty incidence by half by next year will be unattainable even by 2025, according to a discussion..

EVEN if the national government invests heavily on poverty reduction through higher taxes and Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans, the Philipp..

The Philippines has made considerable progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, achieving all the targets remains a daun..

About 130 million people in Southeast Asia lack access to electricity. This was revealed by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) i..

This study analyzed the interactions between natural disasters and household poverty and discussed the coping strategies used by households in respons..

This paper aims to explore the determinants of household income and expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are benefiting from economic dev..

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 ..

This Policy Note provides a framework for analyzing the impact of natural disasters on household income and household poverty and empirically estimate..

Over 40 million Filipinos still rely on traditional biomass for cooking and 16 million do not have electricity, according to a study released by the P..

About 130 million people in Southeast Asia or one in five people in the region lack access to electricity, according to a study by the Philippine Inst..

Across the 10-nation Asean region, an estimated 130 million people lack access to electricity–and 16 million of them, comprising 12 percent of the t..