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Mobilizing the Private Sector for Public Education : A View from the Trenches
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Sosale, Shobhana - 2012
Historically, ensuring access to primary education has been seen as a predominantly public responsibility. However, governments are increasingly sharing this responsibility through a variety of subsidiary arrangements. Some governments are contracting services out to the private sector, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563149
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Public versus Private Education with Risky Human Capital
Kindermann, Fabian - 2009
This paper studies the long-run macroeconomic, distributional and welfare effects of tuition policy and student loans. We therefore form a rich model of risky human capital investment based on the seminal work of Heckman, Lochner and Taber (1998). We extend their original model by variable labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199814
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The Role of the Private Sector in Regional Economic Integration: a View from the Philippines
Yap, Josef T.; Rosellon, Maureen Ane D. - 2010
in the process of economic integration in ASEAN. In the Philippines, the private sector has dominated the economy … Philippines did not experience the anticipated private sector participation and economic transformation that accompany the … reasons for the Philippines' relatively weak private sector response to the opportunities provided by greater openness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421193
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The role of the private sector in regional economic integration : a view from the Philippines
Rosellon, Maureen Ane D.; Yap, Josef T. - 2010
in the process of economic integration in ASEAN. In the Philippines, the private sector has dominated the economy … Philippines did not experience the anticipated private sector participation and economic transformation that accompany the … reasons for the Philippines' relatively weak private sector response to the opportunities provided by greater openness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008666426
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Study of government interventions for employment generation in the private sector
Magno-Ballesteros, Marife; Israel, Danilo C. - 2014 - Final Report: January 2013
Economic growth in the Philippines has not been accompanied by significant improvements in employment. Government thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358392
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Feasibility of supplemental funds from the private sector for catastrophic illness financing
Juban, Noel R.; Reverente, Benito R.; Santos, Maria … - 2014
Catastrophic illnesses can push a household into poverty by causing unmanageable, or catastrophic, expenditures for their treatment or management. Kalusugan Pangkalahatan aims to provide financial risk protection for the poor. Hence, insurance coverage for catastrophic illnesses need to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463419
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Public-Private Wage Differentials and the Quality of Government Workers in the Philippines
Molato, Rhea - 2015
developing country, the Philippines. It finds that public sector workers in this country are receiving an hourly wage premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021356
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Decomposing the Public-Private Wage Gap for Nurses in the Philippines
Francisco, Jamil Paolo - 2014
, Philippines. Using two estimation methods followed by a Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of the wage differential, we study the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060564
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Education outcomes in the Philippines
Maligalig, Dalisay S. (contributor) - 2010
This paper identifies key determinants of individual, school, and quality of education outcomes and examines related policies, strategies, and project intervention to recommend reforms or possible reorientation. Two sets of data were used: (i) data on school resources and outputs from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984710
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Improving reading skills by encouraging children to read : a randomized evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. - 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310190