Poverty, Vulnerability and Family Size: Evidence from the Philippines
Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr. | June 2005
Abstract
The population and poverty nexus is not new but remains an important development issue for many countries. In the Philippines, for instance, the debate on role of population growth and family size in development, in general, and poverty, in particular, is largely unresolved. Recent research has added the important dimension of vulnerability to poverty to the debate on the determinants of the welfare status of a population. Dercon (2005) has emphasized that vulnerability can even cause poverty. The issue of vulnerability has hardly been dealt with using Philippine data. This paper summarizes the empirical evidence, both from secondary sources and from the author’s own analyses, on the importance of family size in poverty and vulnerability to poverty.
Citation
Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr.. 2005. Poverty, Vulnerability and Family Size: Evidence from the Philippines. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3617. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Alleviating Poverty
Anti-Poverty
Extreme Poverty
Fight Against Poverty
Global Poverty
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Indicators Of Poverty
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Eradication
Poverty Analysis
Poverty In Developing Countries
Poverty Reduction Efforts
Urban Poverty
Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
Project Evaluation & Review Technique
Performance Evaluation
Impact Evaluation Reports
Evaluation Criteria
Development Indicators
Environmental Indicators
Economic Indicators
Educational Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Low Income Groups
Socially Disadvantaged Children
Rural Conditions
Rural Development
Social Conditions
Urban Development
Urban Sociology
Project finance
Resources evaluation
Needs assessment
Cost benefit analysis
Poor
Economic forecasting
Health expectancy
Social groups
Political participation
Distribution of income
Inequality of income
Developing countries
Rural community development
Mass society
Social change
Social policy
Social stability
Population
Sustainable development
Peasantry
Urban policy
Urban renewal
Results mapping
Risk assessment
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
Cost effectiveness
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