According to the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), childhood stunting can affect one-third of under-five children annually,1 or roughly 3.78 million Filipino children in 2015. A big chunk of this number comes from the poorest of the population, where one in every two children under five suffers from stunting. Sadly, the Philippines has shown little progress in reducing its prevalence in ...

This Policy Note investigates the concept of ASP. It also recommends applicable measures to make the existing SP programs in the Philippines become more adaptive.

This Policy Note addresses this lack of a measure of chronic and transient poverty in the Philippines. It also investigates the determinants that drive households into these kinds of poverty.

After two decades of failed attempts to pass a competition bill in the Congress, the enactment of the Philippine Competition Act (Republic Act No. 10667) under the Aquino III administration in 2015 became a breakthrough legislation intended to promote free and fair competition in economic activities. Its objective is more or less standard and universal, which is to “safeguard, protect, and promote ...

Slow economic development, wealth distribution disparities, high population growth, and rapid urbanization are some of the factors that increase the country’s vulnerability to disasters. As such, an effective disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) scheme requires action on several fronts: good governance and institution building, social protection and antipoverty effort, investment on augmented ...

Global trends on the nature and causes of different health risks have shifted over the last century. Countries all over the world, including developing ones like the Philippines, are thus challenged to come up with health systems that can address these evolving health concerns. The World Health Organization (2017) estimated that about half of the 56.4 million deaths worldwide can be attributed to ...

The government needs sufficient information to formulate appropriate interventions for these vulnerable households. Unfortunately, the country’s official poverty statistics have not paid much attention to measuring the Filipinos’ vulnerability to poverty. This Policy Note aims to provide an estimate of Filipinos’ vulnerability to poverty. It also offers a profile of vulnerable Filipino households ...

This Policy Note reviews the performance of the NGP from 2011 to November 30, 2016 (latest available data) and discusses the results of the aforementioned analyses of the program conducted by the COA and PIDS. It aims to provide the government and other stakeholders a summary of the performance of the NGP and the issues and problems encountered during its implementation. This Note also proposes ...

This Policy Note analyzes the role of wage and attitudes toward gender roles within the family in determining the time allocated to housework. It aims to expand the list of determinants of housework hours and provide an accurate valuation of housework helpful in fostering more favorable environments for women.

In many countries, the public sector is unable to meet certain social needs such as universal health coverage (UHC) due to its lack of resources, administrative roadblocks, and management issues. Thus, UHC—a scenario where a wide spectrum of people obtains the needed health services without having to suffer financial hardships—becomes a challenging development goal. The Philippine government has ...