Philippine democracy gained worldwide attention and even admiration after it was restored by a popular uprising that ended the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. Following the assassination of opposition politician Ninoy Aquino, hundreds of thousands of protesters had assembled on Epiphanio de ...
A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary. ‘No income, insufficient aid’ for Oriental Mindoro fisherfol...
Land distribution and income inequality in rice-growing villages in the Philippines, 1993, 1997Jonna P. EstudilloMahabub HossainUniversity of the Philippines School of Economics and Philippine Economic Society
a policy covering the minimum levels of well-being in the supply of drinking water that is appropriate for the most important city in the country. The method consists of measuring inequality through continuous variables estimating the Lorenz curve, the Gini coefficient, the targeting coefficient and...