The main driver of poverty reduction has shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural income growth in rural Philippines in the past two decades. Agricultural growth is still relatively more important (vis-à-vis non-agricultural growth), however, in reducing rural poverty in relatively more...

This paper examines the interaction among economic growth, inequality in land distribution, and poverty reduction. Following the familiar neoclassical growth model approach, it attempts to explain the variations in mean income growth rates, as well as in rates of poverty reduction, accross...