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Public Provision of Education and Government Spending in Pakistan

Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the … emphasising provision of education in Pakistan, as well as the trend in coverage and public sector spending on education … government education expenditure. The rural areas of Pakistan are the more disadvantaged in the provision of the education …

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How Are Government Hospitals Performing? A Study of Resource Management in DOH-retained Hospitals

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Sanglay-Dunleavy, Abigail Barbara; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To...

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Pakistanââ‚¬â„¢s Trade Policy, 1999ââ‚¬â€œ2008 : An Assessment

Baig, Mirza Qamar - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

Employing the Annual Trade Policy issued each year by the Ministry of Commerce as a simplified case study, this paper examines the reasons for the ineffectiveness of this policy instrument and the inherent inconsistencies and conflicting signals to the market that it contains. Capacity...

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Public Policy Towards the Elderly in Indonesia : Current Policy and Future Directions

Arifianto, Alex - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

In the past few years, public policy towards the elderly has become an emerging policy issue for Indonesia. With one-third of all Indonesians predicted to be elderly (i.e. aged 60 years or older) in the year 2050, millions of citizens are vulnerable to old age poverty, since many of them will...

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Health Care Services and Government Spending in Pakistan

Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on health in Pakistan at provincial, both rural and urban level; using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM), 2004-05, and by employing the three-step Benefit Incidence...

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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan

Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

basic needs such as education, health, safe water supply and environmental sanitation facilities. As of 2005, approximately …

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Social Overhead Capital Development and Geographical Concentration

Aso, Yoshibumi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

In recent economic geography, it is emphasized that the effect of cost decreasing in transportation on agglomeration is nonlinear. It is said that the influence of traffic infrastructure investment and the change in transportation cost on urban agglomeration does not appear until the cost is...

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Promoting Private Sector Development in Vietnam from the Effectiveness of Supporting Policies

Tai, Nguyen Dinh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Over the last 20 years of Doimoi (renovation) reform policy in Vietnam, private sector has significantly contributed to the outstanding success of the economy. The rapid development of this sector has been resulted from the opening -up economic policy pursued by Vietnamese government and...

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Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

Manasan, Rosario G.; Cuenca, Janet S.; Villanueva, Eden C. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to … earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the … the poor benefited from government spending on education? In particular, it uses benefit incidence analysis to evaluate …

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Aging and economic growth : issues relevant to Singapore

Thangavelu, Shandre M.; Wei, Yong Yik - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

The paper studies the effects of the changing age and education composition of the labour force on productivity growth … in Singapore. The quality change of workers from aging and education is measured through a quality index. Quality change … through education is the key driving force for the productive performance of the labour force. On the other hand, the growth …

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