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..

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) recognize the need to understand the link between disability and poverty. In fact this has become one of the k..

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are apt to be influenced by giving no..

In the Philippines, importation has remained as one of the most feasible options for the government to meet the growing demand for rice. It is thus im..

Using data from the 2003 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and 2005 Community-based Monitoring System for a city, Multivariate Adaptive Regression ..

This paper discusses public and private institutions that were established in the Philippines to provide services to Filipino international migrant wo..

The purpose of the paper was to summarize studies identifying the causes and effects of Philippine international labor migration and remittances and t..

The paper characterizes how international labor migration became an enduring feature in the country’s development. It presents data on the flow of t..

This report argues that improving local service delivery (LSD) is about improving people’s lives. It is premised on the idea that better provision o..

While water districts, as local service providers of level III water systems outside of Metro Manila, are already important, the percentage of the nat..