MANILA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The poverty rate in the Philippines has declined by 5 percent but the World Bank (WB) stressed on Wednesday the need to provide more well-paying jobs especially to the 22 millions Filipinos who still live below the poverty line. The World Bank says in a new ...
resulting in increased incomes and generating more income opportunities for workers," said World Bank Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand Ndiame Diop, adding that maintaining this peaceful trajectory is vital for the region's long-term prospects for development. ...
Social insecurity emerges as the most vulnerable dimension in our analysis.Rayhan, IsratUniversity of DhakaSultana, NayeemUniversity of DhakaDey, DurjoyUniversity of DhakaFasse, AnjaUniversity of StraubingUllah, AKM AhsanUniversity of Brunei Darussalam...
Possible explanations include a less intense immune response, a delay in the onset of symptoms, and a shorter exposure time and exposure rate in the elderly and children. Focusing on the incubation period among different SARS-CoV-2 variants is important. Our finding showed that the incubation ...
The WHO hopes to reduce the infection rate among pregnant woman by telling people to avoid travel to ZIKV-infected countries [4]. In recent years, vector-borne diseases such as dengue have become a major threat in Southeast Asian countries like India due to urbanization [5], the tropical ...
The country introduced tariff reforms replacing the declining block tariff (DBT) scheme by an increasing block tariff (IBT) structure in 2012. The reform, however, was a rate structure change and not a subsidy removal, and electricity tariffs in the country remained lower than the long-run ...
In 2013-2015, the average annual growth rate of rural students from poor areas enrolled in key universities was kept above 10 percent, according to the document. The white paper added that the country also reinforced poverty relief efforts through developing industries with local features, resettlin...
𝑃𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦𝑖𝑡−1Povertyit−1: poverty rate in province i at time 𝑡t − 1; ○ 𝐺𝑅𝐷𝑃𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑡−1GRDPpercapitait−1: GRDP per capita in province 𝑖i at time 𝑡t − 1; ○ 𝐹𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑃𝑜𝑙...
Also, if proper measures are taken, poverty can be reduced significantly in some countries by 2030. The study [21] investigated the effect of financial inclusion on economic expansion, poverty rate, income inequality, and financial balance in 34 Asian nations from 1990 to 2017. Studies documented...