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Recently, the agricultural sector in the Philippines has enjoyed robust growth driven by rapid price increases in key …
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The employment performance of the employment generation programs appears transitory and short term. Although some programs exceeded the employment targets, it is not clear how these numbers are translated at the macro level. The programs are apparently intended to address other social issues...
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strategies used by households in response to natural disasters in the Philippines. It used data from the 2011 CBMS Household … strategies; b) some empirical studies have been done in the Philippines analyzing the aforementioned interactions; c) relevant … interactions between natural disasters and household poverty in the Philippines. …
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Expenditures on agriculture have been rising over time, as expression of the state`s commitment to reduce poverty, raise rural incomes and household welfare, and promote food security. However, agriculture continues to exhibit disappointing performance, namely, laggard growth, lack of...
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, and droughts, on agriculture, food security, and the natural resources and environment in the Philippines. It aimed to …
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be the first such application for the Philippines. The study finds that, correcting for endogeneity, participation in …
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This paper examines the effectiveness and efficiency of implementation of the National Housing Authority (NHA) resettlement programs. The review focuses on the recent operations of NHA covering the period between 2003 and 2011, which covers one of the largest resettlement projects of NHA...
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is necessary and instructive. This paper constitutes the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the AEC Blueprint for the Philippines …. The Philippines Country Report presents the results of the surveys related to the MTR on areas including trade … provided by greater openness in the Philippines, particularly the complex and inefficient administrative processes and …
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Agriculture confronts several challenges over the decade, i.e., meeting burgeoning food requirements with limited farm land, and balancing the need to import with the provision of livelihoods. The current policy regime leans heavily toward import substitution, with supply side interventions to...
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. Evidence, both international and for the Philippines, is favorable to the structural transformation perspective. For the … Philippines, in particular, the evidence points to the following: agricultural growth causes nonagricultural growth, is tightly …
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