Biography of filino economist gerardo sicat

The Philippine Economic Society. Yours truly is a grizzled, old economist. If that marked me as an economist, then I have been one for three-fourths of my life. But I am good for a slow walk; not on a golf course, but around a pool table.

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The whole faculty was on a first-name basis, American-style. All the above served as PES president for a year; mine was The PES has kept its long tradition of meeting in November. Followers of this column and www. Thinking that an audience of economists would be impatient for brand-new findings, I started by showing that the survey-based poverty threshold for a family is not proportional to the size of the family.

For instance, tripling a family from two to six members does not make its poverty threshold triple from P10, to P30, per month—in fact it does not even double to P20, per month. So, the official practice of setting poverty lines on a per capita basis is unrealistic.