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    Philippine rural banking goes mobile with GCash

    Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2007
    With just one text message rural Filipinos can now withdraw and use their money without having to travel to the bank branch. This concise article discusses an innovative project that uses mobile phone banking to reach rural micro-entrepreneurs. The article outlines:
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    Philippines: Agriculture expenditure review

    World Bank Publications, 2007
    This document presents the Agriculture Public Expenditure Review (AgPER), a document which assesses the ways of increasing the impact of public expenditures on broad-based agricultural growth in the Philippines.
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    Promotion of resource efficiency projects: Sustainable Energy for Poverty Reduction, Issue 2, 2007

    Wisions of Sustainability, 2007
    The second edition of the WISIONS publication ‘Sustainble Energy for Poverty Reduction’ describes a range of projects that contribute to this end. One is the community-based adaptation project Solar Pintadas.
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    The innovative use of mobile applications in the Philippines: lessons for Africa

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2007
    The Philippines are a leader in the use of mobile telephones for access to a range of services from m-Banking to m-Education and m-Governance. The Phillipines experience shows that it is possible to increase access to mobile phones, not only for the wealthiest in society but also for the poorer segments of the society.  This publication looks at this experience and
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    Conflict over corals – how do different uses affect local people in the Philippines?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The use of resources in marine protected areas, such as coral reefs, often leads to conflict. Tourists and the tourism industry, conservation organisations and local communities all have different needs and interests. Understanding the costs and benefits of conservation and tourism to local populations is vital for the management of marine protected areas.
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    Interrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.
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    Robust determinants of income growth in the Philippines

    The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, 2006
    This paper examines the relationship between population dynamics and income growth in the Philippines using data from 74 provinces for the period of 1985-2003. It also examines the robustness of the explanatory variables to determine deep determinants of income growth.
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    Asian Development Bank Learning Curves

    Sharing findings and recommendations improves developmental practice and the organisational performance associated with it.
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    Mining Ombudsman case report: Didipio gold and copper mine

    Oxfam Australia, 2007
    This Mining Ombudsman case report examines problems with community involvement in the Australian-owned Didipio mining project based in the Philippines. It follows a request by Didipo community members (Philippines) for the Mining Ombudsman to take up this case.
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    Global Corruption Report 2007

    Transparency International, 2007
    This year’s report concentrates on judicial systems and warns that corruption is undermining judicial systems around the world, denying citizens access to justice and the basic human right to a fair and impartial trial. The report provides comparative analysis of judicial corruption based on 32 country reports and provides

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