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Despite the various efforts to improve the Philippines` education system, why does this country still have low participation rates in education? What ..
Policy Notes
Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover effects--fellow migrants share inf..
Discussion Papers
Aggregate labor productivity (ALP) growth--i.e., growth of output per unit of labor--may be decomposed into additive contributions due to within-secto..
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The 2011 and 2012 fiscal program appears to score high in terms of contributing to the speed of fiscal consolidation despite limited gains in revenue ..
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Water is one of the basic necessities in life, along with food and shelter. It must be clean, safe, and adequate. However, the number of people living..
Development Research News
Globalization highlights the need for public sector reform, good governance, and state capacity building. Thus, this volume highlights the key develop..
Books
With the political noise brought about by the upcoming national elections as well as the prospects of a global economic recovery as backdrop, what cou..
Development Research News
The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency
explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregress..
Discussion Papers
This paper examines the cost of implementing redistributive land reform in the Philippines. Land redistribution has become the core feature of land re..
Discussion Papers
Statistics on the distribution of ODA loans show that the local government sector is the smallest direct recipient of this funding source. While it ha..
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Monitoring the behavior of potential output helps policymakers implement appropriate policies in response to an economic crisis. In the short-run, est..
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The Philippines has used the Build-operate-transfer (BOT) Law as amended to motivate private sector provision of infrastructure. After a brief period ..
Books
The Asia and Pacific region and Latin American and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic distance, but also by disparit..
Discussion Papers
A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has
highlighted the food insecurity problem facing the globe: food production..
Discussion Papers
This study evaluates the Philippines` absorptive performance for foreign aid, particularly during the six-year period 2003 to 2008, and compare this t..
Discussion Papers
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