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    Making women’s work visible: finance for rural women

    Women's World Banking, 2014
    Globally more than one billion women have no interaction with a bank or financial service provider. Rural women face unique challenges and limitations. They have, on average, lower levels of literacy and education than men, and generally have less freedom within households and communities.
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    Macroeconomic impact of a tariff reduction: A three-gap analysis with model simulations

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1997
    Using the interplay of saving, foreign exchange and fiscal constraints, this study determines the impact of trade liberalisation, the tariff reduction in particular, on macroeconomic balances. This study then quantifies these effects using a smaller version of the PIDS Annual Macro econometric Model. Results indicate the importance of exchange rate and tax policies.
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    Exchange rate movements in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1997
    This paper argues that major exchange rate adjustments have been seriously resisted by various groups due to their association of its occurrence during periods of severe economic crisis. Hence, exchange rate policy has not been utilised as part of development strategy but as a reactionary tool during periods of economic crunch and instability.
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    Spotlight on publications: citizen oversight of conditional cash transfer programmes

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
    Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) – a Latin American innovation – have now gained fame around the world for their effectiveness in promoting human development, fighting poverty and reducing inequality.
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    Spotlight on publications: conditional cash transfers

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011
    Latin American countries pioneered the use of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) to achieve important impacts in human development indicators. This selection of publications highlights key resources documenting and analysing important aspects of the Latin American CCT experience.
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    Evaluation of the potentials of private insurance industry as a source of health care finance in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1995
    This paper investigates the significant contribution of private health insurance to the Philippine health care finance. It also determines ways of its promotion and regulation. In addition, it identifies the areas where its services are the most concentrated, identifies its targeted beneficiaries and the manner and nature of payments it makes to its clients.
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    Small enterprises’ access to formal financial services: A review and assessment

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1995
    Regardless of the growth and rehabilitation of several financial institutions in the last decade, a large number of borrowers have not yet been served, specifically small farm and entrepreneurs. This paper describes the Philippine banking system focusing on its effect to the different socio-economic sectors of the Philippine society.
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    Spotlight on publications: Latin American microfinance

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    The following selection of documents presented in this Spotlight some of the key publications focusing on the microfinance sector in Latin America.
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    Spotlight on publications: participation in development projects funded by International Financial Institutions

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
    In Latin America and other regions, many large-scale development projects, such as infrastructure or extractive industries initiatives, are financed by international financial institutions (IFIs) and have the potential for diverse social and environmental impacts.
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    The impact of Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) on the crop sector

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    Several studies have shown that land reform has a positive impact on rice and corn productivity. However, the same cannot be said in sugar and coconut areas. This paper attempts to verify the effect of the implementation of CARP on the productivity of sugar and coconut farms.

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