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A National Policy Study on Child Labour and Development in the Philippines

Lanzona, Leonardo; Aldaba, Fernando T.; Tamangan, Ronald J. - 2004

The alarming number of children engaged in labor as released by the National Statistics Office from the years 1995 to 2001 gave rise to a timely national policy study to review all the important studies available on child labor and assess key government policies affecting child labor in the...

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Improving Local Service Delivery for the MDGs in Asia: the Case of the Philippines

2009

-critical services such as education, health, and water, with a view to formulating sectoral decentralization policy frameworks that … frameworks; (ii) decentralization can only create an enabling environment for local service delivery if and only if it is …

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Triangulation Framework for Local Service Delivery

Layug, Allan S. - 2009

How should local service delivery of public goods and services be improved for desirable development outcomes? This paper attempts at answering this question by providing a framework for improving local service delivery. It argues that improving local service delivery is a function of...

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Do Barangays Really Matter in Local Services Delivery? Some Issues and Policy Options

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Layug, Allan S.; Pantig, Ida Marie T. - 2010

This paper, which is borne out of the need to address scarcity of evidence-based studies on barangay financing, analyzes and evaluates key issues on financing of devolved functions at the barangay level, with particular focus on fund utilization and program allocation, and proposes some policy...

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The Governance of Indonesian Overseas Employment in the Context of Decentralization

Bachtiar, Palmira Permata - 2011

initiatives that have evolved following the onset of decentralization in Indonesia a decade ago. These initiatives materialized in …

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Regional Development in the Philippines: A Review of Experience, State of the Art and Agenda for Research and Action

Mercado, Ruben G. - 2002

Regional development policy and practice took significant transformations over the last five decades. Its relevance has been challenged in recent years by the new economic geography that emerged in view of globalization and as most nations veer towards a more democratic and decentralized...

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An Initial Verdict on Our Fight Against Poverty

Reyes, Celia M. - 2004

The primary objective for the conduct of the assessment of the social sector is to provide the basis for setting the thematic priorities for the Philippines, taking into account the development requirements in the next five years. The specific objectives of the study are: (i) to review the major...

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Paradigms of Decentralization, Institutional Design, and Poverty: Drinking Water in the Philippines

Singh, Satyajit - 2006

This paper looks at the different paradigms of decentralization for drinking water supply in the Philippines and its … effectiveness in poverty alleviation. As centralization and decentralization are not definitive concepts but defining features …, there are bound to be different pathways to decentralization. Indeed, within a defined national path, there could be …

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Extension Delivery System in a Layer and Swine-Based Farming Community: The Case of San Jose, Batangas

Baconguis, Rowena T. - 2007

Public agricultural extension systems face increasing pressure resulting from diverse demands for services coupled with problems in declining funds. This study explores the role of a municipal agricultural extension system in the development of a robust agriculture-based municipality and their...

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Fiscal decentralization and health service delivery: An assessment

Cuenca, Janet S. - 2020

decentralization indeed improves health service delivery in the Philippines. There is lack of studies that employ rigorous quantitative …-based/informed policymaking. In particular, the study proposes an analytical framework that examines the effects of fiscal decentralization on …/degree of fiscal decentralization affecting the health sector. Such endeavor is the first ever attempt to measure the extent …

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