Structural Changes and Interregional Income Inequality in the Philippines, 1975-2009

Q3 Social Sciences

Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI:10.1111/RURD.12024

Takahiro Akita, Mark Saliganan Pagulayan

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type="main"> The Philippines has undergone gradual, but substantial, changes in industrial structure over the past few decades, and these have been associated with changes in the geographical distribution of economic activity. This study analyzes changes in the determinants of regional income inequality in the Philippines associated with these structural changes from 1975 to 2009. This is accomplished by using the bidimensional decomposition method. The reduction of the disparity between the National Capital Region (NCR) and the rest of Luzon is essential to decreasing Luzon's high within-region inequality and overall interregional inequality. However, this is not easy to accomplish, as service sectors have enjoyed agglomeration economies that the NCR has nurtured under economic liberalization and globalization. Decentralization has been one way to ameliorate the disparity, but its effects are ambiguous. Another option would be to relocate some manufacturing activities to areas outside the NCR where they could enjoy localization economies.

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菲律宾经济结构变化与区域间收入不平等，1975-2009

在过去的几十年里，菲律宾的工业结构经历了逐步但实质性的变化，这些变化与经济活动的地理分布的变化有关。本研究分析了1975年至2009年菲律宾区域收入不平等的决定因素变化与这些结构变化的关系。这是通过使用二维分解方法来实现的。减少国家首都区与吕宋岛其他地区之间的差距对于减少吕宋岛区域内高度不平等和总体区域间不平等至关重要。然而，这并不容易实现，因为服务业已经享受到了NCR在经济自由化和全球化过程中培育出来的集聚经济。权力下放是改善贫富差距的一种方式，但其效果是模糊的。另一个选择是将一些制造活动转移到NCR以外的地区，在那里他们可以享受本地化经济。

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