This study assesses the adequacy of school infrastructure in the Philippine basic education sector and conducts … hygiene (WASH) facilities, the gaps are huge and become more visible when benchmarked against other countries. The Philippines … Philippines still struggles to complete the electrification of schools. …

temporary shock such as a natural disaster may leave permanent consequences for the economy. An obvious permanent effect of a … one-time disaster shock is that physical man-made and natural assets owned especially by poor households may end up … completely wiped out. The disaster may not be the direct cause; it may be that poor households would have to obtain minimum …

related to injury, illness and death suffered as a result of the disaster - are relatively straightforward, the indirect … effects will depend on household decision-making in the aftermath of the disaster. Treating human capital as a long …

, improve their income, and pursue entrepreneurial options. The state of education in the Philippines as well as in APEC … for the development of human resources in the Philippines and lessons learnt from best practices in APEC economies were …