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The current study examines the impact of GVCs on the performance of SMEs in Uva and central provinces of Sri Lanka while recognizing potential local business sectors that can be linked with GVCs. Apart from that, key challenges and main success factors in relation to linking SMEs with GVCs are...
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Globalization has radically changed the way in how goods and services are produced. The impact of globalization on production has been driven mainly by two determinants: In a first phase, a quick fall in transportation costs between countries and in a second, more recent phase, a drastic...
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nongovernment organizations, local government units, institutions such as the Development Bank of the Philippines, the Land Bank of … the Philippines, the Industrial Guarantee and Loan Fund, and other organizations. In this way, it is a public …
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Local government units (LGUs) in the Philippines are authorized to borrow or incur debts to finance development, but … experiences of the Philippines after close to three decades of fiscal decentralization in the country, presents trends and …
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Although access to electricity has improved in the Philippines, the country still faces an energy insecurity problem … Philippines. Constructing an effective interconnector is difficult, because it is subject to the future installation of VRE. There …
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In this study, we examine the impact of the STAR highway located in Batangas province, Philippines, on the public …
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Commodity prices have become volatile over the past 2 decades, and their recent sharp decline has decreased the consumer price index inflation rates for most economies. While many Asian economies have benefited from low international oil and food prices, commodity exporters have suffered. Thus,...
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levels and investigate sources of inequality in the Philippines from 2000 to 2012. Using SD techniques developed in Chow …
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Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Using the general framework proposed by Silber and Yalonetzky (2013), this paper … Indonesia (1997, 2003 and 2007), and for the Philippines (1997, 2003 and 2008) by considering the deprivations in education … and the Philippines, irrespective of the poverty measures used. At the national level, all countries reduced their …
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the latter country increased over the analyzed period, while it was reduced in the Philippines. Our analyses indicate that … (e.g., India, Nepal, and Pakistan), in regional development (e.g., the Philippines) and the large urban-rural gap (e …
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