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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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We examine the role of trade liberalization in accounting for increasing wage inequality in the Philippines from 1994 …
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This paper identifies key determinants of individual, school, and quality of education outcomes and examines related policies, strategies, and project intervention to recommend reforms or possible reorientation. Two sets of data were used: (i) data on school resources and outputs from the...
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