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Getting the Story Right: Growth, Redistribution, and Poverty Alleviation in the Philippines

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  • Arsenio M. Balisacan

    (Professor of Economics, University of the Philippines)

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The available data on poverty are inadequate in informing policy discussions on the growth-inequity-poverty nexus in the Philippines. The approach employed to generate the data yields inconsistent ranking of spatial and intertemporal poverty pro?les. This paper uses a spatially consistent approach to estimating poverty standards for the Philippines. It employs these standards to examine the proximate causes of the changes in sectoral and spatial poverty from the mid-19805 to the early 1990s, focusing particularly on the relative impact of growth and distributional changes, It ?nds that, contrary to popular perceptions, recent episodes of growth have not been anti-poor. The bulk of the poverty reduction in recent years has come from the bene?cial effects of growth on the poor, though the importance of growth in poverty alleviation varies greatly across administrative regions and sectors of the economy.

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  • Arsenio M. Balisacan, 1997. "Getting the Story Right: Growth, Redistribution, and Poverty Alleviation in the Philippines," Philippine Review of Economics, University of the Philippines School of Economics and Philippine Economic Society, vol. 34(1), pages 1-37, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:34:y:1997i:1:p:1-37
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    Cited by:

    1. Briones, Roehlano M., 2000. "Property Rights Reform in Philippine Agriculture: Framework for Analysis and Review of Recent Experience," Discussion Papers DP 2000-29, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    2. Manasan, Rosario G. & Mercado, Ruben G., 1999. "Regional Economic Growth and Convergence in the Philippines: 1975-1997," Discussion Papers DP 1999-13, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.

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