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Does Trade Protection Improve Firm Productivity? Evidence from Philippine Micro Data
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2010
paper, an attempt is made to examine the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity in the Philippines. The country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421181
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Trade Reforms, Competition, and Innovation in the Philippines
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2012
What is the impact of the removal of barriers to trade on the firms' innovative activities? Does the increase in competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421238
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Surviving Trade Liberalization in Philippine Manufacturing
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2012
the light of the substantial trade reforms implemented in the Philippines over the last two decades, the paper examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421250
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Impact of Microfinance on Rural Households in the Philippines
Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Dingcong, Clarence G.; Kondo, Toshio; … - 2008
Philippines. RMFP aimed to support efforts of the Government of the Philippines to strengthen rural financial institutions by … treatment group. Qualified nonparticipating households provide the control for area effects. The impact estimation uses the … difference-in-difference estimation technique which effectively controls for the known sources of biases namely: nonrandom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429879
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Has Liberalization Strengthened the Link between Services and Manufacturing?
Liao, Christine Marie; Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2007
declined from the first to the second period. This result suggests that the Philippines has caught the "splintering" trend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429868
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Land Rental Market Activity in Agrarian Reform Areas: Evidence from the Philippines
Bresciani, F.; Ballesteros, Marife M. - 2008
Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households' participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421121
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Asia's Underachiever: Deep Constraints in Philippine Economic Growth
Briones, Roehlano M. - 2009
Numerous studies have tried to explain the poor growth performance of the Philippines. This paper critically reviews … related literature on constraints to long-run growth, as it applies to the Philippines. We evaluate several factors, namely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421133
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Improving Local Service Delivery for the MDGs in Asia: the Case of the Philippines
2009
would serve as inputs to national strategies and plans in improving LSD in the Philippines. It develops a Triangulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421145
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Toward a Strategic Urban Development and Housing Policy for the Philippines
Carino, Benjamin V.; Corpuz, Arturo G. - 2009
continue to be determined by the performance of its urban system. Overall, however, the Philippines is characterized by its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421149
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Philippine International Labor Migration in the Past 30 Years: Trends and Prospects
Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Abrigo, Michael Ralph M. - 2009
The paper characterizes how international labor migration became an enduring feature in the country's development. It presents data on the flow of temporary and permanent international migrant workers in the last thirty years. Characteristics such as destination, occupation, education, sex, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421151