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 ...
This article is concerned with the analysis of the possible causes of variation in the incidence of income-only poverty and incomes across the provinces of the Philippines using cross-section data in 1990 and 1991. Assuming all other things remaining the same, the analysis indicates that the ...
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...
The Philippines. Indonesia. Mongolia. The Poorest Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean While poverty rates in Latin America and the Caribbean have declined over the past decade, the rate of decrease has slowed. Protests and political upheavals have drawn attention to problems plaguing South...
Understanding multidimensional energy poverty in the Philippines. Energy Policy, 133, 110886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110886 Article Google Scholar Muhanji, S., Ojah, K., & Soumaré, I. (2019). How do natural resource endowment and institutional quality influence the nexus ...
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...
Help in cleaning, playing with the kids, and submitting your donations to them. Schools help students observe this day by conducting eradication of poverty essay competitions. The essays often address the causes of poverty and the ways in which the government and its citizens can help eradicate...
Villegas – Uplift 2004 General Objective: To understand and know about some causes and effects of poverty‚ its impact on society. Objectives: At the end of the seminar the participant will be able to: 1. Describe the situation of poverty in the Philippines. 2. Identify some causes and...
She urges the importance of considering the diversity of FP after spending three years examining case studies in Gambia, Costa Rica, and the Philippines. Chant argues that there is no evidence to prove FP or that FHH represent the “poorest of the poor.” For instance, Chant assumes that ...
The Rajeswari et al. study in India estimated the total socio-economic impact of tuberculosis on patients and their families to be US$171 per case [26]. The Peabody et al. study in the Philippines estimated the combined economic losses due to premature tuberculosis-related mortality and morbidit...