low-income familyThe growth of literacy in the Philippines is attributed to the formalization of the education system. Learning experiences from formal schooling and the home environmental influence, complement and reinforce the role of the teacher and the parent in promoting literacy. Home literacy ...
Despite its rich mineral deposits, the Philippine mining industry is just a fraction of what it was in the 1970s and 1980s when the country ranked among the ten leading gold and copper producers worldwide. Low metal prices, high production costs, and lack of investment in infrastructure have...
The objective of this paper is to examine the rental housing market in the Philippines and provide possible policy options for a viable rental scheme for low income households. Rental housing is now seen as a vital component in accommodating large number of families in developing countries. In th...
The rapid spread of digital technologies within the Philippines will also help to catalyze the development of additional business opportunities in the banking industry.A 2021 survey carried out by the BSP9/shows that most low-income borrowers who turn to informal sources of credit do so because th...
1999, Hout concluded that while most countries exhibited a waning effect of social origins, the Philippine case was inconclusive on “whether the effect of family background is too high or the estimate of post-secondary enrolment is too high…for a country with such low GDP” (2006, p. 246...
The Philippines’ link with the outside world was limited to Chinese and Indian merchants allowed into the country and the yearly voyage of merchant galleons from Manila to Acapulco, Mexico, and back. The income from the galleon trade went, for the most part, into the hands of the religious...
indeed “third world,” just as in some ways, the Philippines is “first world” (and we can also just as easily replace those terms with whatever is preferable or acceptable: Global North and Global South; “developing” and “developed”; “high income” and “low and middle income”)....
Constraints to achieving faster poverty reduction, according to the report, include the less pro-poor pattern of growth; high inequality of income and opportunities; and the adverse impacts of natural disasters and conflict. Most poor Filipinos have low levels of education and live in large househol...
It is argued that these characteristics indicate that the country is submerged in a "low-level equilibrium trap." This situation has profound implications for long-run growth and for the potential growth rate of the country, and explains the progressive deterioration of the Philippines during the ...
Manila, capital and chief city of thePhilippines. The city is the centre of the country’s economic, political, social, and cultural activity. It is located on the island ofLuzonand spreads along the eastern shore ofManila Bayat the mouth of thePasig River. The city’s name, originally May...