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Milo, Melanie S. - 2003

This paper is a preliminary review of the state of competition in the insurance industry of selected Asian countries … insurance industries of the ASEAN5 economies - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It has four main … sections. Section II surveys the market structure and overall performance of the insurance industry in the ASEAN5 economies …

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Furthering the implementation of AEC blueprint measures

Llanto, Gilberto M.; Serafica, Ramonette B.; Medalla, … - 2015

The study identifies outstanding issues and bottlenecks and provides recommendations to facilitate the Philippines' full compliance to its commitments to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). Various in-depth interviews and surveys were conducted with concerned stakeholders from government...

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How Can Regional Institutions Support Reforms to Domestic Financial Systems

Lamberte, Mario B. - 2004

More recently, considerable attention has been given to financial regional integration and cooperation, which intensified in the wake of the East Asian financial crisis. Thus, a number of regional initiatives, such as development of regional bond market and credit rating agencies, among others,...

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Expanding health insurance for the elderly of the Philippines

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Halliday, Timothy; Molina, Teresa - 2019

This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and … insurance coverage by approximately 16 percentage points. We show that the compliers, those induced by the policy to obtain … insurance, are disproportionately female and largely from the middle of the socioeconomic distribution. Instrumental variables …

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