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, based on the experience of four low-lying islands in central Philippines. In the aftermath of the 2013 7.2-magnitude Bohol …
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In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...
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-industrializing developing countries (People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Philippines), drawing on recent developments in applied …
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In response to the spike in rice prices in 2008, the rice subsidy program budget for the Philippines's National Food …
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's Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam; diagnoses the …
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), Philippines, and Thailand. It develops a crisis index that measures the impacts of the crisis by comparing actual values of … product, Korea suffered the worst in reduced employment, and Philippines' output was affected only in 2009. In the labor … problems, particularly Korea's problems with youth unemployment, and Philippines' and Thailand's vulnerable industrial sectors. …
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From 1994 to 2006, the average household saving rate in the Philippines declined by 5.2 percentage points to about a … patterns are best explained by the extended coverage of social security system during the 1990s in the Philippines. Less …
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As one of the world's largest recipients of remittances, the Philippines received remittances roughly 12% of its gross … to the Philippines do not have a significant influence on other key items of consumption or investment such as spending … households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …
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, distribution, and telecommunications) in the Philippines from 1991 to 2004. On the assumption that value-added effects arise from …
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This paper examines the impact of remittances on economy and household welfare in Pakistan by using a general equilibrium framework and microeconometric analysis. The first approach is to highlight the macroeconomic and sectoral effects of a reduction in remittances, while the second is to show...
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