The reduction of poverty is at the heart of the development agenda both nationally and globally. This is reflected in the Philippine Development Plan, as well as in the worldwide commitment toward the Sustainable Development Goals. While the measurement of poverty is ex post and thus, public...

The Philippines, just like many other developing countries, has measured poverty using one-dimensional monetary-based indicators, although poverty is multidimensional in nature. Various work on generating a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) has been undertaken using data from several...

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to income poverty are developed using a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income as being explained by some household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability...