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    Risks and opportunities in securing increased resources for MDGs at the national level

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Without adequate funding support, the achievement of the MDGs, particularly those in which the Philippines is lagging behind, may not be likely. It cannot be denied that financing does not automatically translate into outcomes. However, while financing may not be a sufficient condition, it is, to a large extent, a necessary condition for the attainment of the MDGs.
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    Housing policy for the poor: revisiting UDHA and CISFA

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    The enactment of two pro-poor housing legislations in the 1990s--the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) of 1992 and the Comprehensive Shelter Finance Act (CISFA) of 1994--led to major changes in government policy in housing the poor. While these brought about positive reforms in the housing sector, they were not able to move up housing for the poor in terms of scale and sustainability.
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    Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program: why "deepening" matters in achieving its human capital objectives

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino (4Ps) is by far the largest poverty reduction and social development program the Philippine government has ever conceived. It is also one of the most controversial because its budget is huge and it is mainly financed by loans.
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    International Remittances and Family Expenditure Patterns: The Philippines’ Case

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    This paper examines the influence of overseas remittances to patterns of family expenditures in the Philippines using a matched dataset of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and the Labor Force Survey (LFS). The objective is to study whether or not remittances influence budget allocation of families receiving these income transfers.
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    Avoiding Anomalies of Gross Domestic Product in Constant Prices by Conversion to Chained Prices

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Changing the base year (1985) of Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) in constant prices could change the growth rate and the shares of components even when there is no change in production volume, implying that the changes in growth rate and shares are anomalous (i.e., no real basis).
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    Toward Measuring Household Vulnerability to Income Poverty in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    The measurement of vulnerability, as in the probability that a household becomes poor, is concomitant to the analysis of poverty. To estimate households' vulnerability to income poverty, this study used a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income per capita as explained by some household characteristics.
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    Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
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    A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    How poor are participants of development projects in the Philippines? This paper uses the 2002 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey to construct an easy-to-use objective poverty scorecard that estimates the likelihood that a participant has income below the national poverty line. The scorecard uses 10 simple indicators that field workers can quickly collect and verify.
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    Econometric Analysis of the Export-led Growth Hypothesis: Evidence for BIMP-EAGA Countries

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    This paper employs several econometric methods to test the validity of the "export-led growth" hypothesis in three BIMP-EAGA countries, i.e., the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Firstly, the study uses Johansen cointegration test and Granger causality test to examine the relationship between export and gross domestic product (GDP) in each of these countries.
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    A Cautionary Note on the Interpretation of Unit Labor Costs as an Indicator of Competitivenes, with Reference to the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    This note shows that unit labor costs, the most widely used measure of competitiveness, are equivalent to the labor share in output multiplied by a price-adjustment factor. This has three main implications. First, unit labor costs are not just a technical concept.

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