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This study looked at the sustainability of the growth and development of business process outsourcing (BPO) in the Philippines. It was prompted by the sectors spectacular growth in several of its subsectors, mainly contact call centers, medical transcription, animation, and software development....
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significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
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significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
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out lessons for policy design from economic theory (section 2) and the experience of developed countries (section 3 …). Economic theory, however, is not enough. Policy design that outstrips a countrys capacity to implement it effectively is bad … policy design. This paper therefore deliberately goes beyond theory to include lessons about implementation (section 4). The …
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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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school attendance. We then find that attrition during the transition between primary and junior secondary education levels is … policy implications of our results point to, among other things, the need for refocusing government education spending and … scholarship programs to target those who go missing from the education system after completing primary education. …
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jointly explains patterns of political participation at the individual level and differences in public investment in education …
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In this paper, we examine the effects of introducing constraints on government borrowing using a continuous-time overlapping generations model of a small open economy. We consider government placing constraints on the amount of government bonds outstanding by establishing an upper limit, or...
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Over 10 years after the currency crisis, the degree of exchange rate misalignment is still an issue of contention for East Asian countries. This study evaluates the degrees of currency misalignment of Korea, China, Malaysia, Thailand, the Phillipines, and Indonesia by examining absolute...
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