Poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. In the past four decades, the proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People's Republic of ...
since I find that most locals don’t have a very good understanding of the poverty levels and who is in what category, and for foreigners, it is almost always an eye-opener just how difficult the economic situation is for over 80-85 million people in the Philippines. Socio-Economic Classif...
Poverty and Uneven Development: Reflections from a Street Children Project in the Philippines Discusses causes of the street children phenomenon in the Philippines, emphasizing how uneven development and unequal social order affect socioeconomic, po... SILVA,T. - 《Childhood A Global Journal of Child...
In addition, the benefits of employment also may be overshadowed by the long-term consequences of land loss, which significantly constrains livelihood options[84,87,88,90–92,95]. In their study of jatropha production systems in the Philippines, Montefrio and Sonnenfeld[87]examine the contract far...
'Fishing for Fairness: Poverty, Morality and Marine Resource Regulation in the Philippines - cover' in Fishing for Fairness: Poverty, Morality and Marine R... Classic ethnographic work in sociology tends to focus on urban life with an emphasis on poverty, crime, racial conflict and other dimensi...
Mendoza CB, Cayonte DDD, Leabres MS, Manaligod LRA (2019) Understanding multidimensional energy poverty in the Philippines. Energy Policy 133:110886 Mi Z, Zheng J, Meng J, Ou J, Hubacek K, Liu Z, Coffman DM, Stern N, Liang S, Wei Y-M (2020) Economic development and converging househo...
[27]. In India, the average total economic burden for dengue fever is approximately USD $29.3 million, and schistosomiasis in the Philippines results in 45.4 days off-work lost per infected person/year [23]. Direct costs associated with malaria-encompassing illnesses, treatment, and premature ...
This paper focuses on the home-country consequences of remittances, addressing the question whether and to what extent remittances contribute to poverty reduction and regional development in the Philippines. The next two sections revisit the causes and consequences of international migration, drawing on ...
Schistosoma japonicum is a parasitic flatworm that causes human schistosomiasis, which is a significant cause of morbidity in China, the Philippines and Indonesia. Oncomelania hupensis (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) is the unique intermediate host of S
the world to understand China's poverty alleviation efforts. Over the past five years, Shibadong has welcomed over ten foreign delegations from countries including Spain, Namibia, Vietnam and the Philippines. "I hope our small village can serve as a reference for countries and people in the ...