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  Why do schooling returns differ?: screening, private schools, and labor markets in the Philippines and Thailand

  Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, 2004

  This paper examines returns to schooling in the Philippines and Thailand, using recent employee surveys in manufacturing industries.The results from the empirical study show that schooling returns increase stably as education attainment increases in Thailand whereas the returns increase only at university level in the Philippines.
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  Philippine Response to the 2003 UN CSW Questionnaire on PFA Implementation

  National Comission on the Role of Filipino Women, 2004

  This report contains highlights of progress in implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (PfA) (1995) and outlines main interventions from 2001-2003 aimed at removing the main obstacles to Filipino women's advancement.
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  Country Gender Assessment-Philippines

  Asian Development Bank, 2004

  This report examines the situation of women in the Philippines. It identifies major gender issues and their implications for programming and project activities of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Philippines has made significant improvements in advancing gender equality and empowering women. Yet serious challenges still exist which impede Filipino women's advancement.
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  In focus: poverty and the city

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s people will live in cities. Such growth is bound to outstrip the capacity of poorly resourced governments and feeble urban economies to absorb new residents and provide them with adequate jobs, shelter and services.
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  Financial reforms in Asia since 1997: lessons and responses

  Global Development Network, 2004

  The Asian financial crisis of 1997 was characterized by a combination of several inter-related processes of which included the appreciation of dollar pegged exchange rates, declining exports, arbitrage of domestic and international interest rate differentials in liberalized capital account regimes, reckless financial intermediation, asset price collapse, and debt defaults.
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  Faith, equity and development

  World Bank, 2005

  This theoretical paper, based on existing research, assesses the influence that religious movements have on the development process. The concept of identity politics is used to interpret the motivation for and principles of these movements.The paper is presented in five parts.
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  Sweet hazards: child labour on sugar cane plantations in the Philippines

  Terre des Hommes, Netherlands, 2005

  This report, a case study on the sugarcane plantations in the Philippines, examines the reality of working children’s lives in order to measure this against the international policy framework on child labour.The situation on the sugarcane plantations is illustrative of the hazardous forms of child labour, which are often overlooked by policy makers and researchers.
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  First language first: community-based literacy programmes for minority language contexts in Asia

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005

  This comprehensive report is the outcome of the Regional Workshop on Mother Tongue/Bilingual Literacy Programmes for Ethnic Minorities held in Kunming, China (May 2004). This workshop presented findings from UNESCOs action research on using the mother tongue/bilingual approach in pilot literacy projects for ethnic minority communities.
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  Inventory of micro-insurance schemes in the Philippines

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This working paper has been launched as part of the Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All, which was initiated in June 2003. The paper makes the point that the majority of poor people, particularly women working in the informal sector, are often not protected against shocks through social security.
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  In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.

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