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APPC HISTORY

At present, APPC is committed to: updating and even expanding the model to guide the analysis of ever evolving issues affecting the agricultural sector; and expanding domestic capability to conduct analysis of poverty and rural development concerns.

The power of the APSM to guide policies has been enhanced by the addition of a poverty module that uses information from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES). This provided a detailed characterization of the short-term poverty impacts at the household level as well as guide the government in designing safety nets that will mitigate possible adverse effects that policy changes may have on the poor. The poverty module has since been updated to reflect the most recent FIES.

The first research project conducted by APPC is entitled Pathways to Sustained Poverty Alleviation: Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries and Communities and the New Economic Paradigm. The study was for the Department of Agrarian Reform and involved an ex-ante examination of how various public investment and trade policy alternatives influence poverty at the household level, particularly households belonging to agrarian reform communities (ARCs). The study made extensive use of the APSM. The experiments conducted in the study indicate that the business-as-usual approach to managing the agriculture and rural sector must be abandoned in favor of a strong reform agenda that is characterized by efforts to liberalize agricultural trade complemented by increased public investment in support services such as irrigation, R&D, and extension.