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    Social insurance in the Philippines: responding to the global financial crisis and beyond

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    This paper aims to review and assess protection afforded by the Social Security System and the Government Service Insurance System, two out of the three agencies tasked with administering social insurance in the country.
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    Motives and giving norms behind remittances: the case of Filipino overseas workers and their recipient households

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    Literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behaviour. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are apt to be influenced by giving norms as well. In this paper, the authors formulate an empirical specification that takes account of remittance motives involving worker-household pairs.
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    Institutions serving Philippine international labor migrants

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    This paper discusses public and private institutions that were established in the Philippines to provide services to Filipino international migrant workers. Thirty years of having explicit policy on international labor migration has resulted to the creation of various public agencies to promote, manage, and protect migrant workers.
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    The social and economic impact of Philippine international labor migration and remittances

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    The purpose of the paper is to summarise studies identifying the causes and effects of Philippine international labor migration and remittances and to highlight research gaps. Literature and reliability of findings that explore the many facets and implications of the social and economic impacts of international labor migration and remittances were assessed and reviewed.
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    Trends in household Vulnerability

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Increasingly, development policy has taken a social reform focus. Public policies and government programs articulated in the Medium Term Philippine Development Plans reflect the thrust toward sustainable development.
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    Scenarios and options for productivity growth in Philippine agriculture: an application of the Agricultural Multimarket Model for Policy Evaluation (AMPLE)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food security. While growth can be achieved by expansion of agricultural area and input intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a promising option. However, productivity growth appears to be a relatively low priority for policy.
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    Assessing the competitiveness of the Philippine IT industry

    2000
    The development experience of the past three decades has demonstrated the strategic role information technology (IT) has on the global economy. As an industry, IT has dominated world trade growth in the 1990s contributing to the rapid growth of exports. As a generic technology, it has also revolutionized production process by cutting costs and enhancing product quality and performance.
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    ASEAN's fledgling debt securities markets: more tasks ahead

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    ASEAN economies have long recognized the importance of developing a deep and broad domestic debt securities market to complement the banking system in efficiently mobilizing and allocating financial resources. However, it was only in the early 1990s that they started to make bold steps to build a vibrant domestic debt securities market.
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    Efficiency and expense preference in the Philippines' cooperative rural banks

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    This paper attempted to test whether efficient cooperative rural banks (CRBs) have a better control of their agency costs. We used two different concepts of efficiency, namely, cost efficiency and alternative profit efficiency, and found somewhat different results from both approaches. Using Stochastic Frontier Approach and Distribution Free Approach, we tested two different propositions.
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    Computing additive CVMs of GDP subaggregates

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    In practice, GDP in chained prices is the economy-wide result of following the recommendation by the 1993 UN System of National Accounts for adoption of chained volume measures (CVMs).

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