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Item Restricted Education and its relation to economic growth, poverty, and income distribution : Philippine scenario(1991-03-22) Anicete, Anna Marie Teresa C.; Catacutan, Edeliza Q.; Lim, Joseph; Lim, JosephAn education explosion has taken place in all countries worldwide. Philippines is one of those who experienced such. There seems to be a continuing improvement in every education indices in all the different levels. But, surprisingly, there's no corresponding acceleration of economic growth. It is this confusing scenario which led the authors of this study to tackle the effects of schooling on poverty, economic growth and income distribution in the Philippines. In this paper, a cross section regression analysis of the 14 regions of the country, will be used in proving or disproving the hypotheses that: (a) poverty incidence decreases with an increase in literacy rates and gross enrolment ratios per level, (b) and that there will be an improvement in income inequality with an increase in the gross enrolment ratio per level. The results showed that only college education could improve poverty incidence. Primary and Secondary education were found to be of no help in decreasing the number of people below the poverty line. This implies that education of the people should be sustained on to the tertiary level in order for schooling to have an inverse relation to poverty. Adding more insult to this injury is the result of the regression analysis between education variables and income distribution, which showed that schooling has no power at all in improving income inequality. The result is alarming but it could still be improved by analyzing the different factors affecting the distorted relationship of schooling to poverty and income distribution and through proper government intervention. In the first part of this paper, the Philippine educational system and its relation to Philippine economic growth and income distribution was discussed. The second part shows a survey of the works of different economists on the said topic. The next segment presents the theory underlying the hypotheses. This is followed by the methodology which explains the procedure in testing the hypotheses. The limitations of the model were also discussed in this section. Interpretation of results follows this. Lastly, conclusion and recommendation were provided by the authors.