Enhancing income opportunities

• Main Authors: Verlarde, Rashiel, FUJII, Tomoki, Lächler, Ulrich
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Growth and Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1293; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2292/viewcontent/Philippines_report_2010_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Accelerating growth is essential for poverty reduction. As argued earlier, poverty has failed to decline significantly since the East Asian Crisis due to insufficiently dynamic growth, a high degree of income inequality that reduces the income elasticity of poverty reduction, and an apparent worseni...