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parents to children in rural Philippines. Parents’ income has come mainly from agricultural sources while children’s income …
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the industrial leaders. The Philippines was part of the group of countries that caught up during the interwar and post … together, these forces created a “perfect de-industrializing storm”, It seems likely that the Philippines has forever lost its …
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Countries in November 1998. The objectives of the study for the Philippines are to evaluate the history and current state of … corporate governance in the Philippines; establish a sound analytic basis for policy and regulatory reform measures to …
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While much has been written about the political ideas of the revolution, little if anything has been written about its economic ideas. This paper is an attempt to provide an intellectual background to the economic policies and directives emanating from the Malolos Republic. It traces the source...
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. Total capital flight from the Philippines was estimated at USD 138 billion (in 1995 constant prices) for the period 1970 … country. Were it not for capital flight, the Philippines would have reached an economic performance like the Asian economic …
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analyze the socioeconomic determinants of child labor in the Philippines using the 1995 CLS. A sequential probit model is …
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Surveys of self-rated poverty, done in the Philippines at the national level 56 times over 1983-2001, quarterly since …
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This paper attempts to shed light on the debate sparked by the seemingly conflicting trend from 2000 to 2003 where we note a decrease in real incomes accompanied by a decrease in poverty incidence. A comparison of income and expenditure figures across space and over time gives us two important...
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The article presents major trends and turning points in the growth of five social science disciplines in the country: anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology. It provides a sweeping historical account of their post-war institutionalization up to the 1960’s, their...
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The paper estimated the marginal private and social rates of return for education investments over time (1988, 1990, and 1995) using the “elaborate method” and Mincer equation. Rates of return estimates in general were relatively stable, mostly increasing between 1988 and 1990, but fell in...
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