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education. Bad living environment thus deepens poverty, increases the vulnerability of both the poor and nonpoor living in slums …This paper examines the linkages of poverty and environment at the household level in Philippine slums. Rapid …
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. Using an econometric regression for studying the poverty reduction impacts of rural electrification in the Philippines, we …
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The bottom-up budgeting (BUB) process is one of the major reform initiatives of the Aquino administration and has been tagged as such from several perspectives. First, it is seen as a component of its budget reform thrusts that are aimed at making the national government budgeting process more...
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Directing government subsidies to social services such as health care is expected to bring about positive external/social benefits and improve equity in access to health services. In general, government spending on health is envisioned to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their...
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government. This is perhaps the reason why the institutional and legal environment has been made favorable to this particular … needs improvement. This paper examines the employment profile of PWDs in the Philippines using the 2008 and 2010 disability …
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The year 2013 marks the fifth year of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) implementation in the country since its inception in 2008. The first batch of beneficiaries will be graduating from the program in several months` time. Meanwhile, the government continues to expand the...
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The importance of tertiary education in promoting human development and improving the economy`s competitiveness has … education, management and financial systems, and access, despite considerable funding support provided by the government. This … study, which is an extension of a previous work to include all SUCs in the Philippines, aims to (i) review and assess the …
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This paper aims to explore the determinants of household income and expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are benefiting from economic development. Using regression analysis, five factors were examined: (1) location of the household, (2) access to infrastructure, (3) changes in rice...
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In the Philippines, no assessment has been done yet on the impacts of changes in household income and the free public … secondary education act (Republic Act 6655) on the outcomes of education. Thus, this paper inquires on the impacts of these two … educational attainment level, average years of schooling, and education inequality. Using descriptive statistics and regression …
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In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other … countries in the region, the Philippines is still behind. In the early years of the 21st century, more than a third of the … educational capital. However, in education, the rich and the poor are separated by two different educational divisions …
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