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Lifting Filipinos out of poverty is essential to achieve the Philippine Development Plan 2017–2022 target of becoming an upper middle-income country..

Stunting is a human development disaster. It increases the chances of death in children, and if they do survive, it could still leave permanent scars ..

Widespread chronic malnutrition in the Philippines is a human development disaster, which needs critical and urgent attention. The economic consequenc..

The Philippines aspires to be an upper middle-income country by 2022 as stated in the 2017–2022 Philippine Development Plan. It has also committ..

#17cÆð²ÝÊÓƵInfoBits: Did you know that the Philippines’ public sector spending on education has been increasing?From 2.1 percent of the country’..

Filipinos aspire for long and healthy life, a collective vision set in the AmBisyon Natin 2040. This Policy Note examines the key trends and challenge..

Hello, 17cÆð²ÝÊÓƵ friends! Here's our #17cÆð²ÝÊÓƵFactFriday for the week on the Social Pension Program.A 17cÆð²ÝÊÓƵ study that examined the implementation of the gove..

Financial inclusion can help curb poverty, reduce inequality, and potentially enhance productivity and long-term growth. However, empirical research o..

The COVID-19 pandemic has such a wide-reaching and sudden adverse impact on people’s livelihoods. For a country like the Philippines which signi..

The last issue of the Development Research News (DRN) this 2021 features articles from presentations during the 7th Annual Public Policy Conference (A..

This study evaluates the capacities of agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBOs) to participate in value chains using data from three pilot ar..

Health care providers such as hospitals and primary health care facilities form an integral part of any health system. Providers must have both financ..

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) gathers 10 ASEAN countries and five partners, namely, the Republic of Korea, China, J..

FinTech in the Philippines has been gaining more attention in recent years, especially during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when lockdowns are pr..

Since 2011, the government, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), has implemented the Social Pension (SocPen) Program which..