This study investigates how international remittances affect income inequality in a highly out﹎igration and remittanceヾependent country, the Philippines. This study shows that the inequality‐remittances nexus is inverse U﹕haped, suggesting that remittances have an income〆qualising effect only after...
This paper examines the impact on employment and wages of liberalization in selected services subsectors (banking, distribution, and telecommunications) in the Philippines from 1991 to 2004. On the assumption that value-added effects arise from service liberalization that subsequently increase productivity...
The Philippines failed to achieve its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) commitment to reduce maternal deaths by three quarters. This, together with the recently launched Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reinforces the need for the country to keep up in improving reach of maternal and child hea...
The Philippines failed to achieve its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) commitment to reduce maternal deaths by three quarters. This, together with the recently launched Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reinforces the need for the country to keep up in improving reach of maternal and child hea...
In the Philippines, the proportion of female political leaders is more than double that of, for instance, Japan, reflecting the impact of legislated gender quotas since 1991. Another key role for government is in education and training, an increasingly vital part of the effort to open...
Inequality, ethnicity, and status in a ranked society: Intermarriage in Mindanao, the PhilippinesA tension exists between the normative aspiration for greater equality between ethnic and religious groups in society and the empirical reality that ascendant groups benefit from the unequal social order. I...
Especially in the Philippines, the government and media condemn migrant mothers with concerns that they are causing a family break-up. Although the economy has been sustained by remittances frommigrant workers, they shift the responsibility of family crisis only to migrant mothers and insist that ret...
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders. ...
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of how the changing dual economic structure and urbanization affect inequality in Asia. Focusing on data for four countries — the Peoples' Republic of China, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines — the paper asks three questions. First, how much of ...
Ray (1998) defines economic inequality as the disparity in material choices among individuals or households. 2. Several studies have used nighttime light, a remotely sensed indicator, as a proxy for economic activity to examine the impact of natural hazards on the local economy (Beyer et al.2022...