disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in … manufacturing and services, with no perceptible effects on self-employment in non-agriculture. The results are consistent with the …This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a …

not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from …

This paper estimates the impacts on The Philippines of deep integration in a modern mega-preferential trade agreement …

Philippines? health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys, health spending increased by 150 percent … health spending has also increased and, in 2012, out-of-pocket spending on health added 1.5 percentage points to the poverty …

poverty in the Philippines to these choices by presenting estimates for three alternative weighting schemes and three measures …Multidimensional poverty comparisons can be sensitive to the choice of welfare indicators, the weights assigned to the … indicators, as well as the aggregate poverty measure used. This paper examines the robustness of trends in multidimensional …

to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is employed to estimate … from the regression model are then used to estimate ex ante household vulnerability to poverty (the likelihood that … household consumption falls below the poverty line) in the event of future natural disasters of different intensities …

consequence of clientelist politics, ruling out alternate explanations (such as, for example, poverty driving both vote buying and … health outcomes). The data come from the Philippines, a country context that allows for measuring vote buying during …

of the crisis in the Philippines. The authors find increases in both the level and the depth of aggregate poverty. Income … impact in developing countries. This paper uses a micro-simulation approach to assess the poverty and distributional effects …

business services. The paper assesses the poverty and shared prosperity impacts of deep integration to reduce these three types … in the macroeconomic variables that impact poverty and shared prosperity. The model estimates are used in the Global … Income Distribution Dynamics microsimulation model to obtain assessments of the changes in the poverty headcount and shared …

poverty will require structural change in agriculture, and in rural African economies more broadly. Drawing on a range of …, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper argues that ending extreme … structural change in the agriculture sector and the rural nonfarm economy …