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    Analysis of hospital production and cost: Economies of scale and scope

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1995
    Using full-information maximum likelihood on a cross-section sample of 65 hospitals from seven Philippine provinces, this paper jointly estimates a two-output transcendental logarithmic variable cost function and four share equations.
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    A study on primary health care services in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1995
    In the first part of this paper, results from critical appraisal and description of economic impacts on health policy are taken to show that there is a limited expertise in the country on economic evaluation. Despite dissemination, only 25 per cent has an impact on policy.
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    Medicare I: Evaluation of Alternative Reform Measures

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1995
    This study seeks to provide the Philippines Medical Care Commission with short-run and long-run alternatives aimed at improving the performance of Medicare in terms of efficiency and equity. This bridges the findings of two baseline studies: Administrative Issues of Medicare I and Economic Evaluation of Medicare I.
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    A retreat from the ideal: reflections on a frustrated attempt to study a social phenomenon the natural science way

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    To provide Filipino social scientists an opportunity to design their own methodology for the analysis of socioeconomic impacts of a spectrum of governmental programs, the Economic and Social Impact Analysis/ Women in Development program has been instituted.
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    Policy researchers and policymakers: Never the twain shall meet?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    The 1980s have seen the heavy emphasis on economic policymaking. As such, equal emphasis has also been bestowed to the substantial improvement on the principles of analysis and evaluation developed by economists and other social scientists.
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    Dynamics of rural development: analytical and policy issues

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the links among conceptual, empirical and policy issues relating to agricultural growth, rural development and overall Philippine economic growth. It discusses the nature of interaction between agriculture and rural nonfarm enterprises (RNEs) focusing on the demand stimulus generated by agricultural growth.
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    GATT-UR and Philippine agriculture: facts and fallacies

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    GATT-UR provisions on agriculture have been most controversial. Its ratification depends on the establishment of adequate “safety nets” to protect farmers from the anticipated adverse welfare impacts of the GATT-UR implementation.
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    Targeting transfers to the poor: the case of food subsidies

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    Provision of safety nets for the poor is a popular call in development policies especially in light of the government’s pursuit of structural and macroeconomic adjustments.
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    Policy-based lending programs in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    Despite deregulation of the financial markets such as liberalization of foreign bank entry and branching, the government continues to directly intervene in the credit markets through several special credit programs.
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    Toward a cognitive perspective on transition

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003
    The author carries out an uncommon analysis of economic transition and change in terms of human consciousness, perception, knowledge, learning, interpretation and response.

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