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Achieving Boro Rice Production Targets in FY2009-10 : Challenges and Actions Required

Deb, UttamÂÂ; Khaled, Nafisa; Bairagi, Subir KantiÂÂ; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

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Rural to Urban Migration in Pakistan : The Gender Perspective

Hamid, Shahnaz - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper analyses gender dimensions in rural to urban migration (age 10 years and above) in Pakistan. The study is based on Labour Force Surveys 1996-2006. The findings of the study show that overtime internal migration (age 10 years and above) remained unchanged. Female migrants dominate in...

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Cost of Providing Sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Services : An initial assessment of LCCA in Andhra Pradesh

Reddy, V. Ratna; Batchelor, Charles - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services levels remain stubbornly low in rural India despite high levels of public expenditure during recent decades. In many areas, this is a result of service levels slipping back for reasons that include inadequate protection of water sources (both...

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Compensating the Loss of Ecosystem Services Due to Pollution in Noyyal River Basin, Tamil Nadu

Appasamy, Paul P.; Nelliyat, Prakash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

The loss of ecosystem services due to industrial pollution in the Noyyal River Basin was estimated through physical research studies of water and soil quality and bio-mapping followed by economic valuation. Estimates of the loss to the agriculture, drinking water, and fisheries sectors were made...

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Environmental and Resource Management under Myopia

Fujii, Tomoki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Myopia is important in environmental and resource management problems because they often involve inter temporal decisions over a long time horizon. We present a parsimonious extension of a standard dynamic programming equation in a continuous time and continuous state setting, which enables rich...

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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. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 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 …

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Development of Regional Production and Logistic Networks in East Asia : the Case of the Philippines

Macasaquit, Mari-Len R.; Prado, Fatima Lourdes E. del; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

for industrial upgrading and innovation. Both are present in the case study area of CALABARZON in the Philippines but the …

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Challenges in Health Services Trade : Philippine Case

Dacanay, Jovi C.; Rodolfo, Maria Cherry Lyn S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

, barriers, and risks for the Philippines in participating in global trade in health services. It examines the countrys … capabilities in engaging in trade and identifies strategic directions that the Philippines can pursue. It also presents the …

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Sustaining Philippine Advantage in Business Process Outsourcing

Rodolfo, Ceferino S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

Philippines. It was prompted by the sectors spectacular growth in several of its subsectors, mainly contact call centers, medical … Philippines as a BPO location. These questions were directly addressed by the study. Only after these issues have been addressed …

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Land Rental Market Activity in Agrarian Reform Areas : Evidence from the Philippines

Ballesteros, Marife M.; Bresciani, F. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Using data from 3,120 farm household surveyed in 2000 and 2006 the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)...

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