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,...

Der philippinische Entwicklungsplan 1987-92 identifiziert die Förderung der Agrarproduktion und die ländliche Entwicklung als zentralen Ansatz zur Armutsbekämpfung. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht vor diesem Hintergrund kritisch, welche diesbezüglichen Erfolge bei gleicher Strategie in...

Exploiting unique household panel data covering a 30-year period, this paper attempts to analyse the patterns of poverty exits by examining socio-economic mobility in a Philippines village. Macroeconomic growth was a major factor explaining poverty-exit probabilities until the early 1980s. After...

Exploiting unique household panel data covering a thirty-year period, this paper attempts to analyze the patterns of poverty exits by examining socioeconomic mobility in a Philippines village. Macroeconomic growth was a major factor explaining poverty-exit probabilities until the early 1980s....