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This study provides a comprehensive analysis of poverty trends among older people in the Philippines, using various … older people in the Philippines. …
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At the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in the Philippines in April 2020, the Asian Development …
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estimate population density in the Philippines and Thailand on a 100 meter by 100-meter level. Second, we use different …
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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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Cebu, Philippines, as a quasi-experiment, we estimate the impact of the new infrastructure on the local economy of Metro …
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mobility in the Philippines, we analyze a new source of data: cellphone-based origin-destination flows made available by a … Philippines, and suggest additional research that can be based on this novel dataset. …
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The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines … Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and Sen's social welfare functions and introducing a welfare reform index … finds that while direct taxes like personal income tax are overall progressive in the Philippines, they only generate little …
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This paper analyzes why the Philippines' growth performance has improved significantly in recent years. As in the …
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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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Philippines, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino. The study investigates the impact of CCT on current poverty, and the impact of this …
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