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Assessment of the bottom-up budgeting process for FY 2015

Manasan, Rosario G. - 2015

The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in 2012 in time for the preparation of the 2013 National Expenditure Program. The BUB process is...

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After five years of Pantawid, what next?

Paqueo, Vicente B.; Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Castaneda, Tarsicio - 2013

When the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program was designed, the government publicly promised to limit to five years the giving of the education and health grants. This five-year limit is almost over for the first set of beneficiaries by 2013. The natural policy question then is: Would it be wise...

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Health financing for the poor in the Philippines : final report

Cabalfin, Michael R. - 2016

Indigent membership in PhilHealth has surged in recent years, driven by the nation-wide identification of the poor. However, the massive identification has led to the enrollment of more members than official poverty estimates, resulting in leakages in the government's social health insurance...

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Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program : boon or bane?

Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Paqueo, Vicente B. - 2016

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program has been much maligned and dismissed as a "dole-out" program. Critics have focused on the fact that it provides cash grants directly to poor families, believing it would promote the culture of mendicancy and dependence. Others believe that the grants would...

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Social protection and access to health care among children in the Philippines

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Paqueo, Vicente B. - 2017

The Philippines recently introduced two distinct but related large-scale social protection programs that, first …

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Conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines : is it reaching the extremely poor?

Reyes, Celia M.; Tabuga, Aubrey D. - 2012

Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the Philippines` version of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program modeled by Latin …

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Promoting inclusive growth through the 4Ps

Reyes, Celia M.; Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D.; … - 2013

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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Regional integration, inclusive growth, and poverty : enhancing employment opportunities for the poor

Reyes, Celia M.; Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D.; … - 2013

Philippines. Set against the backdrop of continuing economic integration in the region, it seems that the growth in the … Philippines has not been as inclusive as in the other countries as manifested in the increase in the magnitude of poverty. This … inclusive growth in the Philippines through employment generation for the poor. The manufacturing sector can provide employment …

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Conditional cash transfers in resource-poor environments : evidence from the Philippine 4Ps

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Astilla-Magoncia, Danika; … - 2022

We provide new evidence of the heterogeneous impact of the Philippines' conditional cash transfer (CCT) program …

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Impacts of the sustainable livelihood program's microenterprise development assistance with seed capital fund on poor households in the Philippines

Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Magno-Ballesteros, Marife; Corpus, … - 2020

This study evaluates the impact of Microenterprise Development (MD) assistance on the labor supply, income, expenditure, savings, and capital investment of beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya, the Philippine government's conditional cash transfers (CCT) program. The assistance is provided by the...

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