Ballesteros, Marife M. - Matches

Disasters are bad for business specifically for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These catastrophic events can compromise capital, logistics, prod..

This study looks at the effectiveness of the strategy and the complementary interventions of the Sustainable Livelihood Program`s Self-Employment Assi..

Economic growth in the Philippines has not been accompanied by significant improvements in employment. Government thus implemented Active Labor Market..

With stricter risk management for banks and financial institutions and the need to address the housing gap of nearly three million units annually, str..

The development of mortgage-backed securitization (MBS) in many developed countries started as a strategy to expand and facilitate housing finance to ..

This paper draws lessons from international practices to determine the feasibility of developing mortgage-backed securitization (MBS) to expand housin..

This third issue of the PIDS Economic Policy Monitor (EPM) focuses on regional economic integration and inclusive growth. With the approaching ASEAN E..

This paper examines the effectiveness and efficiency of the National Housing Authority's (NHA) implementation of the resettlement program. The review ..

Vulnerability to natural hazards is measured like hazard frequencies that reflect the predisposition of a system to extreme events at a certain instan..

This study proposes a set of indicators for monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policy, patterned after the support estimates of the Organizatio..

In this update of housing subsidies in the Philippines and the fiscal costs of their application, the author delves into the issue of whether the subs..

What brings about the deepening poverty in urban slums? How does it compare with the rural poverty incidence? And why is it urgent that the urban pove..

This paper examines the cost of implementing redistributive land reform in the Philippines. Land redistribution has become the core feature of land re..

This paper examines the linkages of poverty and environment at the household level in Philippine slums. Rapid urbanization and the inadequate infrastr..

The enactment of two pro-poor housing legislations in the 1990s--the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) of 1992 and the Comprehensive Shelter Fi..