Socioeconomic Mobility and Human Development

The 2020/2021 Philippine Human Development Report with the theme Socioeconomic Mobility and Human Development is the 8th in the series of Reports which began in 1994. It focuses on processes that allow people and families to improve their welfare over time and sustain such improvements across generations and how factors related to human development are very important in sustaining such processes.

This issue of the Philippine Human Development Report explores a new perspective on the advancement of living standards, one that not only documents achieved hu man development outcomes but that also inquires into the processes that allow people and families to improve their condition through time and sustain such improvements across generations. It views welfare changes not only through the usual dichotomy of poor and nonpoor but through a prism that recognizes the increasing social and economic differentiation of families and individuals in the country.