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Assessment of the Bottom-up Budgeting Process for FY 2015
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015The 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.DocumentGrassroots participatory budgeting process in Negros Province
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015In an effort to attain the manifold goals of inclusive growth, poverty reduction, and good governance at the local level, the Aquino administration implemented the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting Process (formerly called Bottom-Up Budgeting) in 2012.DocumentBottom-up budgeting FY 2015 Assessment: Camarines Sur
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015Bottom-up Budgeting or BUB (also called Grassroots Participatory Budgeting) is a budgetary reform introduced during the PNoy Aquino administration in 2012.DocumentBottom-up budgeting process assessment: Agusan del Norte
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015The 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.DocumentEconomic Policy Monitor 2014: Effective regulations for sustainable growth
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015This fifth issue of the PIDS Economic Policy Monitor (EPM) highlights the importance of regulatory coherence and quality to realize rapid, sustainable, and inclusive growth.DocumentThe growth of micro and small, cluster based furniture manufacturing firms and their implications for poverty reduction in Tanzania
Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2012Micro, small, and medium manufacturing enterprises (MSMEs) offer good examples of firm clustering and incipient entry points for industrial development in Tanzania. This study analyses the growth of cluster-based, micro and small furniture-manufacturing firms located in the Keko, Buguruni-Malapa, and Mbezi Beach kwa Komba industrial clusters.DocumentMining tax in Zambia
Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, 2013With some of the worst poverty statistics in Africa, Zambia appears to have little to show for a century of mining. But given good policies, the country’s considerable mineral wealth clearly represents a real opportunity to grow the economy and tackle poverty.DocumentA study of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in three Grama Panchayats of Kasaragod District
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2009The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is a historic legislation passed by the Government of India in September 2005. It was enacted in order to address the crucial issues of unemployment and poverty in rural India. The NREGA guarantees a hundred days of unskilled employment to each household in every financial year at an equal wage rate for both male and female workers.DocumentThe effect of information technology on wage inequality: evidence from Indian manufacturing sector
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers. Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to explain such a phenomenon; an inter-sectoral shift in demand structure and an intra-sectoral shift in production technology.DocumentWhat do national poverty lines tell us about global poverty?
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012The basic question about ‘how many poor people are there in the world?’ generally assumes that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an equally relevant question could be ‘how many poor people are there in the world, based on how poverty isPages