This paper explores three aspects of sustainability in upland and coastal resources: the depreciation of natural capital upon which upland farmers and artisanal fishermen depend, the factors affecting the economic sustainability of resource extraction from forests, upland soils and fishery...

Utilizing intergenerational data from a sample of rural households in Laguna Province, this article tests the proposition that rural families are responsive to economic conditions as choices are made regarding children’s educational needs, their location and occupation choices.

This paper attempts to identify a number of emerging population-relevant rural scenarios that require a more creative degree of understanding complex interactive determinants and consequences both at the micro and macro levels. It offers several settings which are illustrative rather than...

This article discusses the productive and reproductive roles Filipino women perform and assesses their contributions to human development. It also examines the reality of their marginalization from the country’s social, economic and political life. It then suggests on measures by which women...

Despite deregulation of the financial markets such as liberalization of foreign bank entry and branching, the government continues to directly intervene in the credit markets through several special credit programs. In the effort to restructure the economy, the government has availed the...

This paper shares initial reflections on Philippine sociology in the 1990s. It takes off from previous assessments of the state of the social sciences as well as from observations regarding the current involvement of Filipino sociologists and the substantive and methodological developments in...