Poverty - Matches

Recent Philippine data indicate that the needs of the poor, which are met unsatisfactorily, include productive employment, access to quality education..

This issue does not comment on the alleged role of microfinancial institutions in alleviating poverty. Neither does it discuss the supposed link betwe..

Despite the government’s credit program approach, access of poor households to microfinancial services has remained limited. This paper explains the..

Existing official poverty statistics cannot be directly utilized for cross-country comparison. This paper illustrates why. It presents an assessment o..

Credit provision for small and poor households has always been the major element of nongovernment organizations in alleviating poverty. Recently, ther..

This article takes credit finance into the level of microfinancing as an anti-poverty instrument. Given proper guidance as to its viability and..

Despite the government’s credit program approach, access of poor households to microfinancial services has remained limited. This paper explains the..

This paper provides a review of frameworks for analyzing poverty alleviation initiatives. The principles in these frameworks were used to guide the re..

This paper reviews the Philippine structural adjustment and poverty alleviation experience. A review of the existing analyses of the impact of structu..

The World Bank’s (WB) commitment to reduce poverty remains at the top of its agenda. In support of the government’s social reform agenda, WB assis..

This study deals with the health care needs of rural poor in Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental. Focusing on small-scale farmers and fishermen, landless la..

This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementati..

This paper examines the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms by which agricultural development changes the economic welfare..

This paper attempts to identify a number of emerging population-relevant rural scenarios that require a more creative degree of understanding complex ..

The Philippines is emerging from the social ruins caused by decades of economic mismanagement and political dictatorship. The government can no..