As in other less developed countries, urbanization and urban poverty have increasingly become major development policy concerns in the Philippines. After providing intertemporal and spatial dimensions of poverty in the country since the early 1960s, the paper examines the recent record with...

As the author sees it, widespread poverty, unemployment and underemployment have been persistent characteristics of postwar Philippine development. The three are interrelated and are influenced by economic, political and socio-cultural factors. He examines some aspects of the poverty problem,...