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Volume 11, Number 2
This issue explores critical economic and financial concerns affecting the Philippines. The studies presented offer data-driven insights that...
Volume 14, Number 2
This issue explores key economic and financial concerns in the Philippines, with studies examining monetary policy, public enterprises,...
Volume 15, Number 2
This issue delves into key economic challenges and policy considerations in the Philippines, covering topics such as balance...
Volume 19, Number 1
This issue examines critical issues in fiscal policy, poverty measurement, and financial system analysis in the Philippines. It...
Volume 20, Number 2
This issue examines key economic and policy issues affecting the Philippines, including trade valuation systems, international credit perceptions,...
Volume 24, Number 1
This issue examines key economic policies shaping the Philippine financial and trade landscape, with a focus on microfinance...
Volume 24, Number 2
This issue explores the economic and environmental challenges facing the Philippines, covering trade liberalization, sustainable forestry, poverty assessment,...
Volume 29, Number 2
This issue examines critical economic and policy challenges shaping the country\'s growth and governance. It features an analysis...
Volume 30, Number 2
This issue presents critical discussions on key economic and policy challenges facing the Philippines. It examines the establishment of an...
Volume 32, Number 1
This issue presents empirical studies on economic policies, household welfare, and market dynamics in the Philippines and beyond....
Volume 34, Number 2
This issue explores key economic themes, including labor costs, export-led growth, poverty measurement, and education spending. The studies...
Volume 35, Number 1
This issue presents research on trade liberalization, economic vulnerability, aquaculture, and macroeconomic policy, offering valuable insights into their...
Volume 37, Number 2
This issue delves into key economic and policy challenges shaping regional development, investment, poverty measurement, and productivity in...
Volume 44, Number 1
This volume of the Philippine Journal of Development revisits some of the government policies specifically designed for those in the...
Volume 48, Number 2
This closing issue of the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD)’s 50th anniversary features a retrospective article by Jan Carlo Punongbayan...
Volume 33, Numbers 1 and 2
This special issue of the Philippine Journal of Development honors Professor Alejandro N. Herrin for his extensive contributions to research...
The Relevance of Poverty Measurement to Food Security Policy
While food security policies have been too frequently formulated, this article argues that the measurement of its incidence has not...
The Structure of Rural Household Income and Its Implications on Rural Poverty in Bicol, Philippines
Against the background of weak agricultural sector and the resulting poverty in the rural sector, this study looks at the...
Equivalence Scale and Poverty Assessment in a Poor Country
Mainly due to the dearth of available data, this article empirically illustrates that the practice of using household expenditures/incomes in...
Fuzzy Subset Theory in the Measurement of Poverty
What has not been explored in the traditional measures of poverty is the extensive set of categorical variables that indicate...
Income Distribution and the Macroeconomy: Some Conceptual and Measurement Issues
Being intended for students interested with the dynamics of interaction of the macroeconomy, income distribution and poverty and who are...
Agricultural Growth and Rural Performance: A Philippine Perspective
Usual indicators of intertemporal rural performance are technically flawed mainly because of the “shifting” of the physical area of the...
Targeting Transfers to the Poor: the Case of Food Subsidies
Provision of safety nets for the poor is a popular call in development policies especially in light of the government’s...
Old Images and New Challenges: Rethinking the Mission of Agricultural Support Systems in Asia
To speak of rethinking the mission of the agricultural support system is no easy task. It has already played crucial...
Social Science Research on Reproductive Health in the Philippines
The accelerated increase in the world population has resulted in poverty, with women and children bearing the greatest burden. Hence,...
Rural Development Reconsidered: Some Emerging Niches for Population Studies
This paper attempts to identify a number of emerging population-relevant rural scenarios that require a more creative degree of understanding...
An Assessment of the Capacity and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: The Philippine Case
Despite the government’s credit program approach, access of poor households to microfinancial services has remained limited. This paper explains the...
Poverty Assessment in the Philippines and Indonesia: A Methodological Comparison
Existing official poverty statistics cannot be directly utilized for cross-country comparison. This paper illustrates why. It presents an assessment of...
Reaching the Poor with Effective Microcredit: Evaluation of a Grameen Bank Replication in the Philippines
Credit provision for small and poor households has always been the major element of nongovernment organizations in alleviating poverty. Recently,...
Impact of Agrarian Reform on Poverty
Using panel data from about 1,500 farm households and estimating from a logit model, the study shows that agrarian reform...
Population and Poverty: A Review of the Links, Evidence and Implications for the Philippines
The article reviews trends in population and poverty, compares population and development between the Philippines and Thailand over the last...
A Better Start in Life: Evaluation Results from an Early Childhood Development Program
Informed by a growing body of research showing that investments in early childhood health, nutrition, and cognitive and psychosocial development...
Poverty, Fertility Preferences, and Family Planning Practices in the Philippines
This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences, and family planning practices in the Philippines using the series...
Children and the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Parents in the Philippines
This paper demonstrates how family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of...
A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines
How poor are participants of development projects in the Philippines? This paper uses the 2002 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey to...
Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines
Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the...
Toward Measuring Household Vulnerability to Income Poverty in the Philippines
The measurement of vulnerability, as in the probability that a household becomes poor, is concomitant to the analysis of poverty....
A New Model for Constructing Poverty Lines
This paper presents a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both food and...
Profiling Poverty with Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines
Using data from the 2003 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and 2005 community-based monitoring system for a city, Multivariate Adaptive...
Different Streams, Different Needs and Impacts: Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN - Thailand (Emigration)
For decades, Thailand has had a strong labor market in both supplying and demanding labor resources. Since the 1970s, Thailand...
Sustainability of the National Government Premium Subsidy for Indigents
The national subsidy for indigent PhilHealth members identified under the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) began in...
Analysis of Out-of-Pocket Expenditures in the Philippines
Health care remains inaccessible and inequitable for all, especially for the poor in the Philippines. Among the sources of health...
Chronic Food Poverty and Weather Variability in the Philippines
This study examines the effects of weather variability on food poverty dynamics in the Philippines. Among others, it finds that...
Simulating COVID-19 Impacts on Poverty and the Middle-Income Class in the Philippines: Implications for Inclusive Growth
This study uses simulation techniques to estimate the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty rates and...
The Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published biannually by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). It serves as a platform for disseminating policy-oriented research on development issues, including the economy, business, public administration, foreign relations, sociology, and political dynamics.
P-ISSN 2508-0954 • E-ISSN 2508-0849 • https://doi.org/10.62986/pjd