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  The Philippines beyond 2000: an economic assessment

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000

  The performance of the Philippine economy from 1987 to 1997 can be summed up in two statements. One, despite significant gains in almost all sectors, the Philippines still lags behind its neighbors. Two, while there has been a marked improvement in the investment climate, there has been a notable lag in the progress of microeconomic reforms.
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  Managing urbanization under decentralized governance framework: volume 1

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002

  Managing Urbanization Under a Decentralized Governance Framework (Volume 1) is the first of two volumes on urban management. It documents the urbanization process in selected Philippine cities in the context of a decentralized environment for governance resulting from the passage of the Local Government Code of 1991.
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  Managing urbanization under a decentralized governance framework (Volume 2)

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002

  Managing Urbanization Under a Decentralized Governance Framework (Volume 2) is a companion piece to Volume 1, which offers the institutional details of managing and delivering urban services.
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  Rethinking institutional reforms in the Philippine housing sector

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002

  Why have housing reforms failed to achieve the desired improvements in housing in the Philippines? A review of trends in government housing strategies shows that while many problems in housing are linked to institutional barriers in the land and financial markets, government reforms simply focus on operational and program-specific issues.
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  Closing the urban fiscal gap: some considerations

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1999

  While urbanization has several advantages, there are also certain problems associated with it. This issue takes a brief look at the urban fiscal gap problem. It also investigates the factors and the interventions that could help overcome the barriers brought about by the fiscal gap.
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  Impact of agrarian reform on poverty reduction

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002

  One of the government's major components in its poverty alleviation strategy is agrarian reform. Through the years, a number of reports have been published on the extent of increase of the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). Very little study, however, had been made on the impact of the agrarian reform program in reducing poverty among the beneficiaries.
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  A second look at institutional reforms in the housing sector

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002

  Despite the long list of policy instruments adopted by the Philippine government through the years to improve the country's housing situation, very little improvement has been observed in the housing condition in the Philippines. Why?
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  Bottleneck to growth: inadequate infrastructure

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004

  For a country to become more competitive in today's emerging world environment and be able to capture new markets and investments, it has to have efficient infrastructure in place. This has been the experience of many rapidly developing countries in East Asia which invested heavily in power, telecommunications, transportation and the like.
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  Household vulnerability to income poverty: Briefing notes

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007

  This Notes calls for the need to regularly come up with household vulnerability measurements and trends in the Philippines, in addition to official poverty measures, for purposes of guiding policy on poverty concerns.
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  Pitfalls in targeting

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007

  In Novemver 2005 the Philippine's Government aunched its hunger mitigation initiative consisting of two programs: the Food-for-School Program (FSP) and the Tindahan Natin Program (TNP) amidst rising concerns about the prevalence of hunger.

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