Aspects of Employment Location, Regional Redistribution, and Poverty and Inequality in the Philippines

Arsenio Balisacan

No 199508, UP School of Economics Discussion Papers from University of the Philippines School of Economics

Abstract: Recent discussions of public policy in developing countries have frequently called attention to the need for reducing high income disparities among regions and between urban and rural areas. This paper examines the relative influence of regional differences in household access to land, infrastructure, and education on aggregate poverty and inequality in the Philippines. It finds that improvement in access to infrastructure and education in less favored regions offers a big push to the poverty-reduction objective. Land redistribution increases rural household incomes, but these increases are not likely to substantially alter the picture of aggregate poverty and inequality.

Date: 1995-08
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No.1995-08, August 1995

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:phs:dpaper:199508

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in UP School of Economics Discussion Papers from University of the Philippines School of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by RT Campos ().