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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2005
    Fiji, Bangladesh, Nigeria, United States of America, Chile, China, Bolivia, Ghana, Colombia, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom, Italy, Tanzania, Netherlands, Argentina, India, Ireland, Brazil, Canada, Asia

    Food systems are being transformed at an unprecedented rate as a result of global economic and social change. Urbanization, foreign direct investment in markets of developing countries and increasing incomes are prime facilitators for the observed changes, while social changes, such as the increased number of women in the workforce and rural to urban migration, provide added stimulus.

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Asia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam

    This study reviews the available
    quantitative and qualitative information on urban poverty
    issues and trends in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region,
    with particular focus on Indonesia, the Philippines, and
    Vietnam. The review is a desk study-which is limited to
    material accessible to the Bank in Washington and draws
    mainly on existing field work and other published and
    unpublished papers. The empirical analysis focuses on the

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Philippines

    This report is intended as an input into
    the Philippine Government's poverty eradication
    strategy. The report aims to update our understanding of the
    nature of poverty and the recent progress in poverty
    reduction in the Philippines. It examines the extent to
    which growth in the nineties has translated into poverty
    reduction and analyzes how well publicly-provided social
    services reach the poor and whether redistributive policies

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Philippines

    The Philippines by virtue of its geographic circumstances is highly prone to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tropical cyclones and floods, making it one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. This report seeks to document the impacts of natural disasters on the social and economic development of the Philippines; assess the country's current capacity to reduce and manage disaster risk; and identify options for more effective management of that risk.

  5. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Philippines

    Just as development means less poverty
    or better access to justice, it also means fewer gaps in
    wellbeing between males and females. Women's
    empowerment and gender equality are development objectives
    in their own right, as embodied in the Millennium
    Development Goals. It is espoused as well in the Convention
    on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
    Women (CEDAW), ratified by the Philippines in 1981; the

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2005
    Philippines

    This paper explores the diversity of the experience of migrants to rural, peri–urban, and urban areas using a unique longitudinal data set from the Philippines. In 2003 and 2004, the Bukidnon Panel Study followed up with 448 families in rural Mindanao who were previously interviewed in 1984/85 by the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Research Institute for Mindanao Culture, Xavier University, and surveyed both a sample of their offspring living in the same area as well as a sample of those who had moved away to different locations.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2005
    Philippines

    The paper examines the possible impact of Doha agreement on Philippine poverty. Using a detailed CGE analysis, the agreement is observed to depress world demand for Philippine agricultural exports, and thus slightly increase poverty, especially among rural households. However, an ambitious full trade liberalization scenario, which involves free world trade and domestic liberalization, leads to increased industrial exports that favor urban households.

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