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Dr. Melcah P. Monsura

Polytechnic University of the Philippines

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4127-4310

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Scopus ID: 57219010929

Melcah Pascua Monsura is the Director of the Research Institute for Human and Social Development under the Office of the Vice President for Research, Extension and Development (OVPRED). She is also a Professor III of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines under the Department of Economics with 15 years of experience in teaching. Dr. Monsura is a consistent Outstanding Faculty based on Students’ Evaluation since 2020. She earned her PhD in Economics degree from the Ateneo de Manila University under CHED FDP-2 Scholarship Program. She is actively involved in research publication and  research presentation, nationally and internationally. Her publication titled Socioeconomic Characteristics of Households, Government Programs on Human Capital, and Natural Shocks as Determinants of Philippine Household Income Mobility which is published in Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 21(4), 71-85, received an University Scholarly Publication Award 2021 given by the Ateneo de Manila University. Also, she received the Gawad Tuklas Award 2022 and Gawad Lathala Award 2022 – Medalyang Pilak awarded by the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Furthermore, she received Huwaran award from Jessie Robredo Foundation in 2023 as a founder of Tupad Pangarap Project, an initiative to help students financially to finish their studies.

Publication List:

  1. Empowered Mother, Healthy Child: The Role of Women Economic Empowerment in the Achievement of Better Child Health Outcomes in the Philippines
  2. Homework: The Polytechnic University of the Philippines Remote Workplace Arrangement Assessment.
  3. Why research matter?: An evaluative study of research productivity performance of the faculty members of the polytechnic university of the Philippines
  4. Do productivity incentives really equate to the increased work performance of employees?
  5. Socioeconomic Characteristics of Households, Government Programs on Human Capital, and Natural Shocks as Determinants of Philippine Household Income Mobility
  6. Long-run Equilibrium Relationship Between Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Philippines
  7. Philippine household income mobility measurement and its decomposition using a pseudo-longitudinal panel data
  8. Socioeconomic profiling of communities surrounding polytechnic University of the Philippines as basis of extension programs
  9. The importance of financial literacy: Household’s income mobility measurement and decomposition approach