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    MWSS privatization: Implications on the price of water, the poor, and the environment

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    Although the Metro Manila Water and Sewerage System (MWSS) has the responsibility for providing urban water and sewerage services in Metro Manila, actual service coverage has been low particularly for sewerage and quality of service has been poor despite subsidies from the national government.
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    Why a new industrial policy for the Philippines is critical

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    For the past two decades, the Philippine manufacturing sector has failed to generate sustained growth and employment for the economy. This can be attributed to the stagnation of the sector due to its inability to generate foreign direct investments and to the absence of structural transformation from agriculture to manufacturing.
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    Key reforms for an effective regional comprehensive economic partnership

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is looking at Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a region-wide free trade agreement, as an important step toward a deeper and integrated production base in the region that is also open to the rest of the world.
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    Will shift to gross income taxation help generate more revenues?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    In an effort to help improve the revenue performance of the national government, especially in the face of the country's current fiscal deficit situation, a number of proposals have been forwarded aimed at having a positive impact on revenues. One of these is the proposal to shift the present system of taxation to gross income taxation.
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    New ideas to help the Aquino administration achieve its health agenda

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    Despite the gains that the Philippines has made in many areas in the country’s health care situation, certain bottlenecks remain. As such, one of President Benigno S. Aquino’s inaugural commitments was to ensure quality and affordable health care for each and every Filipino.
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    Fiscal costs of subsidies for socialized housing programs: an update

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    This policy note provides an update of housing subsidies in the Philippines and the fiscal costs of their application. It addresses the issue on whether the subsidies for housing programmes could have been put into more efficient use by the government. In putting forth recommendations, the policy note highlights key lessons that are worth considering for the Philippines: 
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    Household poverty: addressing the core of microfinance

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003
    The Philippine microfinance market has been developing rapidly in the last few years, which in turn, is expected to be able to make a significant contribution to poverty alleviation in the country.
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    The more the poorer: why large family size causes poverty

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    The poverty incidence is invariably noted to be higher among those with larger family sizes. The best way to uncover the reasons behind this enduring relationship between family size and poverty is to examine the mechanisms behind such relationship, three of which this policy note highlights: (a) the impact of the number of children on the labour force participation and incomes o
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    Investment opportunities for the shrimp processing industry in the Philippines: results from a Hedonic Analysis

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    The Philippine shrimp industry is beset with production problems arising from disease infestation. With declining production and low per capita consumption, this paper sees the opportunities from value-adding, either by enhancing the shrimp product attributes desired by domestic consumers or from reducing or eliminating the unwanted attributes.
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    Shrimp price and quality changes in the Asia Pacific: implications for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    This paper represents an attempt to begin developing the use of a set of hedonic price indexes (HPIs) that account for quality changes in the shrimp industry in the Asia Pacific. Some implications and opportunities for the Philippines are presented to provide a starting point for future research directions.

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