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unconditional convergence on the leaders long before the modern BRICS and even before the Asian Tigers. The Philippines was very …, way above that achieved by the industrial leaders. Indeed, the Philippines was the third Asian country to enter the 5 …% industrial growth club: Japan 1899, China 1900, the Philippines 1913, Taiwan 1914, Korea 1921, and India 1929. The Philippines …
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We investigate the effects of two accountability measures on the decisions of the local governments under decentralization. Using a panel of Philippine municipalities and cities in three election years, we find that term limits have negative but weak effects on the provision of health insurance...
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In 2010, the Philippines appeared to be on track to attain by 2015 its target for Millennium Development Goals 4 …
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209 innovations introduced in selected 48 local governments in the Philippines during the period June 2004-June 2008, the …
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The official poverty data fall short of properly informing public policy and governance concerning the progress, or lack of it, in achieving the country's commitment of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the incidence of poverty and hunger. Imposing consistency in poverty estimation shows that the...
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Anecdotal evidence permeates accounts on the impact of the global economic crisis (GEC) on Philippine poverty. This study systematically assesses the evidence and recent data. It adopts a somewhat eclectic approach, applying regression and decomposition techniques to trace the GEC impact on GDP...
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measures of spatial autocorrelation on land values, patterns of local development and linkages in the Philippines are traced …
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This paper investigates whether agricultural households in rural Philippines insure their consumption and whether they …
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Evaluation studies on conditional cash transfers (CCT) in the Philippines found small if not insignificantly different …
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Using data from the 2008 National Demographic and Health Survey, we ask whether women's economic empowerment -defined alternatively as having the ability to decide on (i) daily needs, (ii) major purchases, and (iii) spending own income - protects women against domestic violence. Using a simple...
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