農村貧困削減における非農業部門の役割-フィリピン・ミンダナオ島の事例-

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While the existing literature on rural poverty dynamics in the Philippines is mostly basedon case studies in rice growing villages in Luzon and Panay islands, this paper examinesthe changing income composition and poverty status among rural households in corn andsugar growing areas in Bukidnon Province on the island of Mindanao, where the incidenceof poverty tends to be much higher than in Central Luzon. Despite the slight overallincrease in the incidence of poverty between 1984-85 and 2003, a substantial number ofhouseholds, including those of landless agricultural laborers, escaped from poverty, andthe majority of them did so through non-agricultural income growth. This finding is inline with the existing literature, despite some major differences in socio-economic environmentsand historical contexts between Mindanao and Luzon. We also find that nonagriculturaleconomic activities that contributed to poverty reduction mainly consist ofpublic sector jobs, such as school teaching, and that the role of private sector developmentin non-agricultural sectors, as well as that of remittances, appears to be minimal, which isin sharp contrast with findings from existing studies.
2010-06-30