Poverty in the Philippines: Income, Assets, and AccessThis publication examines official income poverty statistics and trends, but takes a multidimensional approach in exploring questions of access. The report looks at access by the poor to five important assets: human, physical, natural, social, and financial capital. The report identifies seven broad causes of poverty: macroeconomic problems, employment issues, rapid population growth, low agricultural productivity, governance concerns including corruption, armed conflict, and physical disability. |
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ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK | 7 |
INCOME POVERTY AND INEQUALITY | 15 |
Income Inequality | 30 |
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$1 per day agrarian reform agriculture APIS ARMM assessment assets average barangays basic beneficiaries budget Chapter cohort survival rate conflict Cordillera Administrative Region decile disability distribution Eastern Visayas economic growth elementary environmental expenditure family income FIES Filipino financial capital food threshold gender Gini coefficient Government households human capital implementation improved incidence of families income poverty increased indicators inequality infrastructure international poverty line investment issues KALAHI LGUs Lingap macroeconomic major methodology Metro Manila microfinance million Mindanao MTPDP NAPC natural capital NDHS NSCB number of poor overall poorest population growth poverty analysis poverty data poverty headcount poverty incidence poverty line poverty mapping poverty measurement poverty threshold pro-poor problem proportion provinces ratio reducing poverty Region relative poverty remittances result Romblon sector social capital Social Weather Stations subsistence incidence Survey Table target trend Visayas World Bank