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An assessment of population, health and education policies in the Philippines : 1986 - 1988

Herrin, Alejandro N. - 1990

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Improving reading skills by encouraging children to read : a randomized evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. - 2011

We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...

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Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries

Bhargava, Alok - 2014

, the Philippines, and Tanzania is summarized. The supply of nutritious foods is appraised from the viewpoint of improving …

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Education, labor market and development : a review of the trends and issues in the Philippines for the past 25 years

Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2003 - revised, this version December 2003

This paper comprehensively reviews the developments in the education and labor markets in the Philippines in the past …

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Promoting effective schooling through education decentralization in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Philippines

Behrman, Jere R.; Deolalikar, Anil B.; Soon, Lee-ying - 2002

"Among developing member countries (DMCs), Indonesia and the Philippines rank fairly high in the distribution of real … GDP per capita in PPP dollars while Bangladesh ranks much lower. In terms of aggregate schooling, the Philippines has …, than that predicted based on all DMCs and their respective real products per capita. The Philippines also has expected …

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Implications of Philippine trends in education financing and projected change in school-age population on education expenditures by income group: using National Transfer Accounts r...

Racelis, Rachel H.; Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Salas, J. … - 2012

Financing of education in the Philippines is mainly by the government (public) and by households (private), and since … 2007 and 2040 the schooling age population of the Philippines is projected to continue to increase in size and the age …

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