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    Evaluating the impacts of competition policy reforms on the efficiency of Philippine commercial banks

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    During the 1980s, the Philippines reformed its financial system in order to improve efficiency and strengthen the safety and soundness of financial institutions. However, the efficiency of the financial and banking system is in doubt: the cost of accessing banking services remains high and a majority of enterprises do not have access to affordable banking services.
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    Pico-hydro links household electricity to the clean development mechanism

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Nearly four million households in Latin America, Africa and Asia could benefit from small ‘pico-hydro’ (or family-hydro) units to supply electricity for domestic and local productive uses.
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    Addressing challenges in co-management information systems

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    There is an increasing shift towards the co-management of fisheries in many countries. Co-management creates new challenges for information collection and use, with a larger number of people involved in the process. This has prompted managers to reflect upon their new roles and reconsider their information requirements.
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    China challenges the Tigers: regional implications of China’s manufactured exports boom

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    China’s manufactured exports have grown so strongly in recent years that its neighbours are seriously worried about the effect on their own export sectors. Are such fears justified, and what are the prospects for the region’s economic tigers – Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand?
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    Coping with disasters in the Philippines

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, with a high number of typhoons, floods and droughts. People living with these disasters have fragile livelihood; poverty restricts their ability to cope with and recover from the damage caused by disasters.
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    Contingent loan repayment in the Philippines

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2002
    This paper examines credit repayment among rural Filipino households, using survey data collected in four villages in the Cordillera mountains of northern Philippines between July, 1994 and March, 1995. It finds that the timing of loan repayment depends on shocks affecting lender and borrower but amounts repaid and debt forgiveness do not.
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    Meeting of minds: youth sexual health programme leaders tackle stigma and discrimination

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    An international knowledge synthesis meeting under the UK Department for International Development's Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme brought together programme leaders and researchers from 11 resource-poor countries to discuss stigma, discrimination and human rights in relation to young people’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
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    Lancet Chronic Diseases 2: preventing chronic diseases: taking stepwise action

    The Lancet, 2005
    This article, the second in the Lancet series on chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), presents a planning framework for preventing chronic diseases, divided into key steps or stages, which can be used in settings with limited resources.
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    Effect of liberalization on banking competition

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    The 1990s ushered in major changes in the Philippine banking sector affecting cost efficiency, profitability, and competitive behavior among industry participants. The direct implication is that the liberalisation should be expected to increase banking competition.
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    A currency basket for East Asia: not just China

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 2005
    China recently announced that it is adopting a basket of currencies as the peg for its exchange rate instead of the US dollar. This move raises the question of whether such a currency basket could be adopted in other East Asian countries.

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