Francis Mark A. Quimba, Jonna P. Estudillo
Supervising research specialist, Philippine Institute for Development
Studies; Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
fquimba@mail.pids.gov.ph1, jonna@grips.ac.jp
Date Received: September 23, 2017; Date Revised: January 8, 2018
Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Vol. 6 No.1, 37-45
February 2018
P-ISSN 2350-7756
E-ISSN 2350-8442
Sources of income in rural Philippines the role of population pressure, urbanization and infrastructure development 719 KB 2 downloads
Francis Mark A. Quimba, Jonna P. Estudillo Supervising research specialist, Philippine...
Using nationally-representative datasets from 1990 to 2012, this paper aims to identify pathways out of poverty in the rural Philippines by looking at the different sources of household income. The results show that the most important sources of income growth are nonfarm wage work, foreign remittances, and domestic remittances indicating that nonfarm work and migration are important pathways out of poverty. Households in remote areas remain engaged in agricultural wage work and in the production of high-value agricultural products. Regression results also show that electricity and roads as well as secondary and tertiary schooling haves significant positive impacts on nonfarm wage income and remittances. Overall, this study emphasizes the utmost importance of infrastructure and human capital in facilitating movements out of poverty through nonfarm wage work and migration.
Keywords – poverty, nonfarm sector, migration, human capital, infrastructure