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The Social and Economic Impact of Philippine International Labor Migration and Remittances

Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Zosa, Victorina - 2009

The purpose of the paper was to summarize studies identifying the causes and effects of Philippine international labor migration and remittances and to highlight research gaps. Literature and reliability of findings that explore the many facets and implications of the social and economic impacts...

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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Poverty in the Philippines

Sobrevinas, Alellie B.; de Jesus, Jeremy; Reyes, Celia M. - 2010

the crisis on poverty in the Philippines. The result of this study would serve as inputs to policymakers in prioritizing … transmission channels for the Philippines including overseas employment and remittances, and local employment. The study also … Philippines were selected to serve as poverty observatories or sentinel sites for monitoring the impact of the global crisis …

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Who Provides Good Quality Prenatal Care in the Philippines?

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Lagrada, Leizel P.; Ulep, Valerie … - 2010

This paper attempts to illustrate the quality of prenatal care services provided by different health care providers. Section I presents the introduction and overview of the study. Section II discusses important information gathered during literature review which was organized into prenatal care...

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The Philippines' Absorptive Capacity for Foreign Aid

Kang, Hyewon - 2010

This study evaluates the Philippines' absorptive performance for foreign aid, particularly during the six-year period …

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The Cost of Redistributive Land Reform in the Philippines: Assessment of PD 27 and RA 6657 (CARL)

Ballesteros, Marife M. - 2010

This paper examines the cost of implementing redistributive land reform in the Philippines. Land redistribution has …

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Trends in Household Vulnerability

Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Ramos, Andre Philippe - 2010

This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about the need not only to monitor current poverty, but also to reduce future poverty. An assessment of the trends in household vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years...

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Development of Regional Production and Logistic Networks in East Asia: the Case of the Philippines

del Prado, Fatima; Macasaquit, Mari-Len R.; Cabalfin, … - 2010

for industrial upgrading and innovation. Both are present in the case study area of CALABARZON in the Philippines but the …

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Prospects for Regional Cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean Region and the Asia and Pacific Region: Perspective from East Asia

Medalla, Erlinda M.; Balboa, Jenny D. - 2010

The Asia and Pacific region and Latin American and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic distance, but also by disparities in economics, politics, culture, and history. Most recently, a number of forums explored the possibility of closing such gaps and linking the...

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The 2008 Financial Crisis and Potential Output in Asia: Impact and Policy Implications

Yap, Josef T.; Majuca, Ruperto P.; Park, Cyn-Young - 2010

,China, and the Philippines are special cases. Econometric estimates of a simple growth model show that the difference among …

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Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Barrios, Erniel B. - 2010

The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregressive component for a cross-section data, and a spatial-temporal component for a panel data. An estimation procedure that takes advantage of the...

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