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    Efficiency and effectiveness review of the National Housing Authority Resettlement Program

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    This paper examines the effectiveness and efficiency of implementation of the National Housing Authority (NHA) resettlement programs in the Philippines. The review focuses on the recent operations of NHA covering the period between 2003 and 2011, which covers one of the largest resettlement projects of NHA involving about 93,000 families for the North and South Rail infrastructure project.
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    Cost Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Sitio and Household Electrification Programs

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    The Sitio Electrification Program (SEP) and the Household Electrification Program (HEP) are two ongoing rural electrification programs of the government. To assist the Department of Budget and Management in implementing its zero-based budgeting approach, the author assessed the 2011 SEP and HEP implementation.
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    Establishing the linkages of human resource development with inclusive growth

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    This study is one of the component papers in the priority area on inclusive growth of Project APEC 2015. This paper aims to establish the linkages of enhancing human capital and human resource development in an economy in attaining inclusive growth.
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    Child poverty in the Philippines

    2014
    Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of their physical, mental, and social development.
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    Scrutinizing urbanization challenges in the Philippines through the infrastructure lens

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    Managing urban growth in countries requires that leaders plan ahead using national physical plans that, among others, safeguard land for utilities and physical infrastructure decades ahead, deliberately configures transport networks (including strategic seaports, controlled expressways and, if necessary, railway extension to suburbs) in order to induce factor mobility, and actively targets the
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    Inequalities in income, labor, and education: the challenge of inclusive growth

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    While economic growth is important for poverty reduction, the rather stellar performance of the Philippines in economic growth has still not translated into reduction of poverty. This is in large part due to issues pertaining to distribution. Inequalities in income, as well as inequities in labour and education have provided barriers for everyone to participate in growth processes.
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    Promoting inclusive growth through the 4Ps

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    The year 2013 marks the fifth year of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) implementation in the country since its inception in 2008. The first batch of beneficiaries will be graduating from the program in several months` time.
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    Why Inequality Matters in Poverty Reduction and Why the Middle Class Needs Policy Attention

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    While the Philippines has had a new economic growth trajectory in recent years, the country has had little progress in reducing poverty and in making growth more inclusive. In this paper, the authors examine trends in macroeconomic statistics, and the progress that government has had in its Philippine Development Plan and in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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    Mainstreaming SMEs through social enterprises

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    Social enterprises (SEs) are crucial both for the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and labor generation. The goal of SEs is to provide public goods to communities. In the Philippines, SEs are linked to social entrepreneurship as a process of creating spaces and transforming markets toward the goal of poverty reduction and sustainable development.
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    Assessment of the Bottom-up Budgeting Process for FY 2015

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in 2012 in time for the preparation of the 2013 National Expenditure Program.

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