Discussion Papers

by Aleli Kraft, Paul Mariano, Samuel Kault, Eliana Jimenez-Soto, and Kim-Huong Nguyen
Executive Summary. This report presents a comprehensive analysis of inequities in child mortality and intervention coverage in the Philippines…

by Dr. Arsenio M. Balisacan, Professor of Economics, UPSE
Abstract. That poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon is no longer debatable. What remains a contentious issue is whether the various dimensions of individual deprivation should be aggregated–and how these are to be aggregated–into a summary measure of poverty.This study employs the Alkire-Foster aggregation methodology, which preserves the “dashboard” of dimensions of poverty, to systematically assess the magnitude, intensity, and sources of multidimensional poverty over the past two decades and across subpopulation groups in the Philippines. It finds that what is generally known about the country’s performance in poverty reduction in recent years, as seen in income measures of poverty, is quite different from what the lens of multidimensional poverty measures reveal. While income-based poverty remained largely unaffected by economic growth during the past decade, multidimensional poverty did actually decline. This finding is robust to sources of nationally-representative household survey data and to assumptions about the poverty cutoff. From a policy perspective,this result reinforces the view that nothing less than economic growth, even in the short term, is required to reduce poverty (broadly interpreted to include individual deprivations beyond income). Moreover, the diversity of both deprivation intensity and magnitude of poverty across geographic areas and sectors of the Philippine society is enormous, suggesting that, beyond growth, much needs to be done to make development more inclusive.

by Katsumi Nozawa
Abstract. The promotion of oil palm production as an agribusiness development policy is a major issue in response to the increasing demand of palm oil in the Philippines. This paper focused on oil palm production cooperatives composed of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) as members who were granted the Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA). The paper scrutinized the difference of farm incomes with the land titles between the Individual CLOA and the Collective CLOA under the Agribusiness Venture Arrangement (AVA) mode through the field survey of the cooperatives in the provinces in Mindanao. In conclusion, the proposal was made with the emphasis on the necessity to provide production technology and management skill to the cooperatives and its ARBs members with the special emphasis given to those granted the Collective CLOA through the various kinds of agricultural assistance.

AC-UPSE Economic Forum

[ February 22, 2011; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dr. Edita Abella Tan, Professor Emeritus, UP School of Economics

Date & Venue : February 22, 2011 (Tue), 3 pm, School of Economics Auditorium, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City

The 12th AC-UPSE Forum is free and open to the public.

Download the paper here: AC-UPSE 12 - Paper (705)

Speaker: Dr. Toby Melissa C. Monsod, Assistant Professor, UP School of Economics

Date & Venue : November 17, 2010 (Wed), 3 pm, Romulo’s Lounge, Tower One, Ayala Triangle, Ayala Ave., Makati City

The 11th AC-UPSE Forum is free and open to the public.

Dr. Emmanuel F. Esguerra, Associate Professor of the UP School of Economics, discussed the importance of labor policy in job creation in this edition of the AC-UPSE Economic Forum held on July 21, 2010 (Wed), at the UPSE Auditorium.

Alumni Matters

SE 302, now known as the Galerie Joaquin Meeting Room, was inaugurated last Dec. 28, 2009 in honor of Jack’s father, Mr. Rafael A. Teotico. Taking a cue from Robina Gokongwei-Pe (who surprised her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Yu Gokongwei, with her donation of SE 114’s renovation), Jack’s father did not know that the room would be in his honor.

Ms. Judith R. Duavit Vazquez and Batch 1984 turned over their donation to the UP School of Economics in simple ceremonies at the UPSE Deutsche Bank Room last 20 October 2009. Ms. Vazquez donated P 0.6 M while the rest of her batchmates donated P 0.4 M for the renovation of UPSE Room 105.

[ September 19, 2009 3:00 pm to September 20, 2009 12:00 am. ] The annual UP School of Economics Grand Alumni Homecoming dubbed DISCONOMICS, the Ultimate Party Sa Econ, will be held on Saturday, 19 September 2009 at the D. Macapagal Hall, Library Building of the School of Economics in UP Diliman. Registration starts at 4 pm and the Program, at 6 pm.