Poverty alleviation - Matches

Few studies on microfinance have delved on its development from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. This Policy Notes focu..

Poverty incidence has been declining in the Philippines over the past 10 years. However, with the advent of the Asian crisis in 1997, there was a reve..

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

Innovation in credit programs has alleviated poverty. The premise is that credit accessibility translates into productive activities that aid househol..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

Usual indicators of intertemporal rural performance are technically flawed mainly because of the “shifting” of the physical area of the rural sec..

Poverty has haunted Filipinos. Overtime, its figure has been mounting to an alarming scale. Why are we so poor? This article tells us why.