Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Arsenio M. Balisacan Author-Email: ambalisacan@upd.edu.ph Author-Workplace-Name: University of the Philippines School of Economics Title: Poverty in the Philippines : An Update and Reexamination Abstract: What is known, based on official poverty data, about spatial poverty profiles (regional, provincial, or rural vs. urban) as well as poverty changes in recent years, is not quiet robust. The main problem is that the official practice for poverty comparison is somewhat inconsistent. This paper is proposes a practical approach to measuring the poverty spatial/subgroup comparison, as well as for performance monitoring of efforts to reduce absolute poverty. The approach is employed to construct new poverty profiles based on nationwide household surveys covering the late 1990s. The paper also examines how initial living standards and socioeconomic characteristics have influenced household responses to the Asian economic crisis. Classification-JEL: I32, O53 Keywords: welfare, living standards, poverty, poverty lines Journal: Philippine Review of Economics Pages: 15-52 Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Year: 2001 Month: June File-URL: http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/41/550 File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:38:y:2001:i:1:p:15-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael M. Alba Author-Workplace-Name: College of Business and Economics, De La Salle University, Manila Title: Household Vulnerability to Employment Shocks, 1997-1998 Abstract: This paper studies the vulnerability of Filipino households to employment shocks that were brought on by the Asian financial crisis and the El Niño dry spells of 1997 and 1998. Using a panel data set of households culled from eight consecutive quarters of the Labor Force Surveys and the 1997 Family Income and Expenditures Survey, it explores the correlates of employment-shock vulnerability from among a select set of household characteristics. It finds that the factors affecting vulnerability are different in different quarters. Moreover, the statistically significant variables are different for male and female workers. Classification-JEL: D10, E24 Keywords: economic vulnerability, economic shock Journal: Philippine Review of Economics Pages: 53-91 Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Year: 2001 Month: June File-URL: http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/42/546 File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:38:y:2001:i:1:p:53-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maria Cynthia Rose B. Bautista Author-Workplace-Name: College of Social Science and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City Title: The Social Sciences in the Philippines : Reflections on Trends and Developments Abstract: The article presents major trends and turning points in the growth of five social science disciplines in the country: anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology. It provides a sweeping historical account of their post-war institutionalization up to the 1960’s, their polemical debates and contending theoretical and methodological positions during the 1970s and the 1980s and the convergence in perspective and plurality of discourses in the 1990s. For the period of intense disciplinal debates (1970s and 1980s), the effects of Marxism and the indigenization movement on the disciplines are examined. The paper concludes with the contributions of the social sciences to public discourses, policy and practice. Classification-JEL: O1 Keywords: economic history, Philippines Journal: Philippine Review of Economics Pages: 92-120 Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Year: 2001 Month: June File-URL: http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/43/547 File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:38:y:2001:i:1:p:92-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gerardo P. Sicat Author-Email: gsicat@skybroadband.com.ph Author-Workplace-Name: University of the Philippines School of Economics Title: The Economist in Government : A Reflective Commentary Abstract: No abstract Classification-JEL: O1, O2 Keywords: nationalism, nation building, economic policy Journal: Philippine Review of Economics Pages: 121-136 Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Year: 2001 Month: June File-URL: http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/44/545 File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:38:y:2001:i:1:p:121-136