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Extensive global evidence suggests that conditional cash transfers (CCTs) encourage long-term investment in human capital by poor households. However, CCTs also have the potential to distort incentives for investment among children. If only some children in the household are monitored/subsidized...
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The Philippines is home to around twenty five million of the 2.3 billion people worldwide who lack access to a basic … 2005, to undertake a three-part study that would assess the reasons why low income urban households in the Philippines … this study are to provide context for the sanitation conditions of low-income communities in the Philippines and to …
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addressing poverty, the Philippines is hindered by the limited expansion of its middle class. In the East Asia region over 2002 …-thirds, but the share in the Philippines increased from 37 percent to just 44 percent. The lack of well-paying jobs limited the …
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.The Philippines is not oblivious to this developing paradigm. The Philippines is considered tohave one of the most advanced social …
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across the Philippines. It offers some recommendations on how the Philippine targeting system can maintain its functionality …
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This is the fourth benefit incidence analysis of the Philippines' conditional cash transfer program that uses standard …
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and human development program in the Philippines. Over the last decade, the evolution of the Pantawid Pamilya was not only …, the 4Ps has not taken full advantage of the existing payment system in the Philippines yet. The Pantawid Pamilya has great …, this note recommends the Government of the Philippines to develop a strategic payment reform agenda, under which 4Ps should …
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This report consolidates written outputs from the Technical Assistance to Support the Elaboration of Mindanao Human Resource Development (HRD) Strategy, which was requested by the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) and undertaken by the World Bank under the auspices of the Australia-World...
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success. We examine the performance of safety net programs in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines in terms of …
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, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of civil …
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