El Nino or El Peso? Crisis, Poverty, and Income Distribution in the Philippines

Using household survey data for 1998, the authors assess the distributional impact of the recent economic crisis in the Philippines. The results suggest that the impact of the crisis was modest, leading to a five percent reduction in average living standards, and a nine percent increase in the incid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Datt, Gaurav, Hoogeveen, Hans
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
CDF
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19968

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