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Do Remittances Alter Labor Market Participation? A Study of Albania
Kalaj, Ermira Hoxha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
During the last two decades, South-East European countries have experienced a large increase in the number of people migrating to more developed countries. With a large portion of their population abroad, these countries are highly dependent on remittances, which in the case of Albania far...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112387
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Do Institutions Reduce Gender Discrimination? Evidence from Labor Market Participation Rate in Some Selected African Countries
Ojeaga, Paul; Odejimi, Deborah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The study investigates the role of social-political institutions on gender discrimination and female employment in five selected African countries, Ghana, Cameroon, Botswana, Kenya and Egypt. The methodology used is the quantile regression analysis, which is based on the premise that estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113229
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Capital Flight and Economic Performance
Beja, Edsel Jr. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
calculations on the Philippines suggest that capital flight contributed to lower the quality of long-term economic growth …. Sustained capital flight over three decades means that capital flight had a role for the Philippines to lose the opportunities … the macroeconomy more effectively, the Philippines remains caught in the perpetuity of crises, its economy hollowed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260151
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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction: focus on western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and social equity-laden microcredit strategy for the impoverished agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Mindanao. It particularly examines the program design and implementation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401358
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Philippines and Indonesia: On the way to a migration transition
Amjad, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
This paper, in a comparative analysis of the Philippines and Indonesia, examines first under what conditions can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402059
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Unchained Melody: Economic performance after the Asian crisis
Beja, Edsel Jr. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand have not recouped their losses from the 1997 Asian Crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836930
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Is inflation targeting preferred by Filipinos?
Beja Jr, Edsel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Analysis of World Values Survey 2000 data for the Philippines finds that lower income Filipinos are more likely than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532147
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Exploring Environmental Services Incentive Policies for the Philippine Rice Sector: The Case of Intra-Species Agro Biodiversity Conservation
Fuwa, Nobuhiko; Sajise, Asa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper considers a hypothetical scheme of green payments to induce inter-specific agrobiodiversity in the context of Philippine rice farming. We empirically estimate a model of farmer behavior and then simulate the consequences of alternative (hypothetical) PES schemes under a fixed budget...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534233
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Pathways from Poverty toward Middle Class: Determinants of Socio-economic Class Mobility in the Rural Philippines
Fuwa, Nobuhiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
a long way in pulling the poor out of poverty in the rural Philippines. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534282
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The Philippines on debt row
Beja Jr., Edsel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
incomes has contributed to the economic decrepitude of the Philippines. Debt relief is neces-sary to pull the country out of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029699