The link between malnutrition and poor health among elementary school children and absenteeism, early dropout and poor … classroom performance as well as the effectiveness of school-based nutrition and health interventions in improving school … transfer programs since 1997. Its current program, the School-Based Feeding Program, as implemented in school year (SY) 2013 …

, improve their income, and pursue entrepreneurial options. The state of education in the Philippines as well as in APEC … for the development of human resources in the Philippines and lessons learnt from best practices in APEC economies were …

This study assesses the adequacy of school infrastructure in the Philippine basic education sector and conducts … are needed given that school buildings in certain remote areas do not meet quality and safety standards, enrolment is … hygiene (WASH) facilities, the gaps are huge and become more visible when benchmarked against other countries. The Philippines …

This paper comprehensively reviews the developments in the education and labor markets in the Philippines in the past …

Financing of education in the Philippines is mainly by the government (public) and by households (private), and since … 2007 and 2040 the schooling age population of the Philippines is projected to continue to increase in size and the age … structure to shift toward higher proportion in the age group that attend the tertiary school level. This paper presents results …

In 2008, about 12 percent of five- to fifteen-year-old children were not in school, five years later this had gone down ….45 percent in 2013. In this paper, we examine this decline in the proportion of out-of-school children and improved primary … program that requires families under the program to send their children to school. These three broad public programs to invest …

Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue …. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … their physical, mental, and social development. This report provides a comprehensive profile of children who are living in …