ABOUT THE BOOK: Pro-Poor Development Policies: Lessons from the Philippines and East Asia is a collection of 25 essays on Philippine economic development, written by eminent scholars, to honor the illustrious academic and public service of Arsenio

Anaemia is a global public health problem affecting 800 million women and children globally.

Micronutrient deficiencies such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and vitamin A, constitute a severe global public health phenomenon.

Women play important roles at different nodes of both agricultural and off-farm value chains, but in many countries their contributions are either underestimated or limited by prevailing societal norms or gender-specific barriers.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound global impact on governments, healthcare systems, economies, and populations around the world.

Women's participation and empowerment in value chains are goals of many development organizations, but there has been limited systematic, rigorous research to track these goals between and within value chains (VCs).

This paper examines the Philippines and Viet Nam’s contrasting human development and growth experiences since 1986 from a political economy perspective.

The article empirically examines the timing of initial decisions to adopt food safetysystems and subsequent decisions to maintain the certification.

"The two anthropometric indicators of acute malnutrition in children under 5 years, i.e. a Mid-Upper Arm Circumference < 125 mm (MUAC ₁₂₅ ) or a Weight-for-Height Z-score<−2 (WHZ ₋₂ ), correlate poorly.