Anecdotal evidence permeates accounts on the impact of the global economic crisis (GEC) on Philippine poverty. This study systematically assesses the evidence and recent data. It adopts a somewhat eclectic approach, applying regression and decomposition techniques to trace the GEC impact on GDP...

The official poverty data fall short of properly informing public policy and governance concerning the progress, or lack thereof, in achieving the country’s commitment of halving, between 1990 and 2015,the incidence of poverty and hunger. Imposing consistency in poverty estimation shows that...

What is known, based on official poverty data, about spatial poverty profiles (regional, provincial, or rural vs. urban) as well as poverty changes in recent years, is not quiet robust. The main problem is that the official practice for poverty comparison is somewhat inconsistent. This paper is...

The available data on poverty are inadequate in informing policy discussions on the growth-inequity-poverty nexus in the Philippines. The approach employed to generate the data yields inconsistent ranking of spatial and intertemporal poverty pro?les. This paper uses a spatially consistent...

A member of the class of demand systems proposed by Blundell et al. (1993) is employed to improve the structure of food consumption responses in the Philippines. In general it is found that the income elasticity of demand for cereal is about 0.1 and that this elasticity does not drop rapidly...

The paper provides a survey of selected topics and issues in the economics of rural development, namely: concepts and empirical regularities concerning rural growth linkages, poverty, and income distribution; determinants of income source diversi?cation; and demand and supply factors...

The first of a three-part survey on the economics of Philippine agriculture, this paper focuses on empirical studies regarding the determinants of fertilizer use, and the role of input and output subsidies in agricultural development. Based on a simple conceptual framework for the analysis of...

This note presents some aspects of the neoclassical political economy of economic protection. It develops a conceptual framework which focuses on the costs and benefits of investment in political in?uence to certain conditions in the society and how the benefit-cost structure may affect the...