The article reviews trends in population and poverty, compares population and development between the Philippines and … Thailand over the last 40 years, discusses the theoretical links between population and poverty as well as the empirical … reducing poverty and perhaps inequality, as well as better fertility management--particularly among the poor--aimed at the …

reform has had a positive impact on farmer beneficiaries. It has led to higher real per capita incomes and reduced poverty … incomes and lower poverty incidence. Moreover, complementary inputs such as irrigation, credit and government services tend to …

Philippine recovery data. Also shown is the fact that Green Revolution has not substantially alleviated rural poverty in the …

Existing official poverty statistics cannot be directly utilized for cross-country comparison. This paper illustrates … why. It presents an assessment of poverty measurement in the Philippines and Indonesia by examining methodologies used and … the disparity in their respective poverty statistics. A more comparable poverty estimates in these countries are provided. …

of poverty. To estimate households' vulnerability to income poverty, this study used a modified probit model that … were found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy interventions will have to be developed to minimize the …

many facets of poverty. The 4Ps is by far the largest poverty reduction and social development program the Philippine … their immediate needs and aims to "break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human capital". As …

, distribution and poverty using a CGE-microsimulation approach wherein the representative household assumption in the traditional …

-Japan bilateral agreements on unemployment, income distribution and poverty. The results indicate contraction in agriculture but … industry. Unemployment in agriculture deteriorates while in industry improves. Thus income inequality worsens. However, poverty … has the least poverty incidence while rural has the highest. The generally favourable poverty effects are due to the …

This paper extends the analysis on microfinance and poverty from the household perspective by focusing on the role of … other economically active household members in alleviating household poverty. Results show that additional other …, results from the earnings regression analysis and logit analysis indicate congruence with generally accepted theory on poverty …