-critical services such as education, health, and water, with a view to formulating sectoral decentralization policy frameworks that … would serve as inputs to national strategies and plans in improving LSD in the Philippines. It develops a Triangulation … frameworks; (ii) decentralization can only create an enabling environment for local service delivery if and only if it is …

thematic priorities for the Philippines, taking into account the development requirements in the next five years. The specific … the Philippines are viewed from the overall context of poverty as the major development problem of the country. The … different dimensions of poverty are used to gauge the performance of the country. The Philippines' performance with regards to …

This paper examined how PWDs in the Philippines make a living and determined the factors that influenced them to select … conditions of PWDs in selected cities in Metro Manila, Philippines conducted in 2008, econometric analyses were conducted. The …

initiatives that have evolved following the onset of decentralization in Indonesia a decade ago. These initiatives materialized in … perda related to overseas employment. Prior to the mapping analysis, a typology of four possible types of classification is … constructed. Out of the 127 collected perda, 81% fall in type-1 perda (perda on general employment which are extractive); 14.2% in …

summary of the effects of decentralization is given as a contextual background for the discussion of local finance reforms …

accountability. The literature on fiscal decentralization suggests that these two goals are not incompatible. In fact, real autonomy …) promotes fiscal responsibility. In the context of the ongoing debate in the Philippines, however, local autonomy has been … imbalance. However, closer scrutiny of the problem indicates that greater tax decentralization coupled with a well designed …

health in the Philippines. Despite the country's twenty-five years of experience in decentralization, little is known about …This study provides a systematic review and summary of the extant knowledge on the impacts of decentralization on … the topic. Overall, our survey shows that the existing scholarship on the impact of decentralization on health in the …

Despite the long tradition of decentralization in health care worldwide, there remains limited evidences on its impact … on health outcomes. In this paper, we investigate how the expansion of local government incomes in the Philippines …