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This paper examines the linkage between privatization and social spending in the least developed African economies with reference to Ethiopia. Many previous studies have proved that privatisation has had a direct and positive effect on social welfare. The study used data over ten years,...
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Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand have not recouped their losses from the 1997 Asian Crisis …
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This paper detects pro-girl (age 5-15) bias in intrahousehold allocation of consumption budget in the rural Philippines …
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The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has become a contested maritime space. Most works concentrate on conflicts and negotiations to resolve the ensuing issues. In this paper, a cultural theory will be applied to stress the...
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The Philippines has long been regarded as the weak sister of Asia, but in the Asian financial crisis it performed … relatively well. This is not simply a matter of not being able to fall out of the basement, either—in mid-1997 the Philippines … of the eventual contraction were less in the Philippines than elsewhere in Asia. Rather, the Philippines crisis …
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overall economic ill-being in the Philippines did not change much even with robust economic growth in recent years. This …
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This articple presents a historical macroeconomic perspective to present a brief analysis on why the Philippines is …
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The study investigates the effect of imposing an n-child policy by forecasting the population of the Philippines using … birth rate trend in the Philippines, population stabilization is realizable even without implementing a child policy but …
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Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political …
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Based on household panel data that tracked migrant households (with an additional survey cost of 17 percent), this article describes behavior of household relocation and quantifies the extent of attrition biases in estimating the determinants of percapita household consumption and of its growth...
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