Poverty gap - Matches

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

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

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

The sensitive issue of poverty made the past regime reluctant to make official estimates of poverty incidence. At best, there have been vague ..