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 …

, 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 …

channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a vital role in driving effective climate change mitigation and … document the existing evidence on the impacts of climate change damages, and the effects of climate change mitigation and … through damage to infrastructure. These two channels call for different policy interventions, focusing on the different stages …