Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. A Framework for Understanding the Rural ICT Center Challenge -- A Common Objective -- Sustainability, Resilience, and Impact -- The Rural...

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figure and Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Incentives for Disaster Risk Reduction -- What Are Incentives? -- How Are Incentives Used in the Case Study Urban Areas? -- 4 Designing an Incentive Program for Disaster Risk...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Philippines has a large stake in climate change -- 1.2 Greenhouse gas emissions are low but rising rapidly -- 1.3 Energy supply is...

This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...

Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of...

Filipino seamen currently compose approximately twenty percent of the 1.2 million international maritime transportation workers. Ninety percent of the world's goods and commodities are transported by ship. Taken together, these statistics attest to the critical role Filipino seamen play in...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Terms and Spelling -- Note on Currencies and Measurements -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- I: Introduction and Theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Institutions and Social Reform -- II: The Politics of Equitable Development...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 | Background to the Asian Crisis -- Causes of the Crisis -- Fundamental -- Table 1.1 Capital Flows for the Four Asian Countries (Percentage of GDP) -- Table 1.2 International Bank Lending to East Asia (in billions of US Dollars)...