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Tracking East Asia's Recovery from the Capital Account Crisis: Analysis, Evidence and Policy Implications
Yap, Josef T.; Rana, Pradumna B. - 2001
The strong recovery of the five crisis-affected countries of East Asia between 1999 and 2000 has revived the debate on the causes of the 1997 financial crisis. Initially there had been an emerging consensus that the crisis had originated from the capital account. However, some analysts see the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429646
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State of Competition in the Insurance Industry: Selected Asian Countries
Milo, Melanie S. - 2003
insurance industries of the ASEAN5 economies - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It has four main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429714
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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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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
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Institutions Serving Philippine International Labor Migrants
Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Cabalfin, Michael R.; Abrigo, … - 2009
This paper discusses public and private institutions that were established in the Philippines to provide services to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421155
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The Social and Economic Impact of Philippine International Labor Migration and Remittances
Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Zosa, Victorina - 2009
specifications, estimation procedures, and data are necessary. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421159