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    The Bangkok Declaration and Strategy for Aquaculture Development Beyond 2000 and Philippine Aquaculture

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    This paper reviews the Philippine aquaculture sector in light of the Bangkok Declaration and Strategy for Aquaculture Development Beyond 2000, an internationally produced document that strongly encourages the incorporation of key strategy elements into the national aquaculture development programs.
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    Trade liberalization and pollution: Evidence from the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    The paper assesses the impact of trade reforms in the Philippines on pollution using computable general equilibrium (CGE) model simulations and two industry case studies on sugar milling and refining and cement manufacturing. Generally, trade reform is output augmenting and welfare improving. It concludes that the overall impact on pollution is very small.
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    The Philippine payment system: Efficiency and implications for the conduct of monetary policy

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    This paper discusses key operational concepts involved in a payment system and describes the emerging payment systems in industrialised countries. This gives developing countries, like the Philippines, a preview of the likely evolution of their payment systems in the next few years as they deepen the integration of their economies with the rest of the world.
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    Benefits (and losses) from rent control in the Philippines: An empirical study of Metro Manila

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    This study examines benefits of rent control law in Metro Manila. The results show that rent control benefits are conditional to occupying a rent-controlled unit and on tenure. The benefits of rent control are found positive.
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    Supporting the core policies for the sustainable economic development of the Philippines

    Korea Development Institute, 2013
    The year 2012 is the second year in which the South Korean Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) has been conducted with the
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    Child poverty in the Philippines: more children suffer as poverty rises

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    This policy note looks into the current situation of children in the Philippines in the face of poverty and hunger with the end goal of contributing to efforts in enhancing the policy interventions of the government in poverty reduction. The policy note argues that regional disparities are significant and regional needs differ significantly.
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    Focus on barangay economic development

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    As the barangay is considered to be the local government unit closest to the people in terms of access and proximity, its role in local service delivery cannot be undermined.
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    Making reforms truly transform: the case of Philippine basic education

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    While there have been attempts aimed at improving education in the Philippines, the question remain, why have these frameworks and the programmes they ushered not succeeded in transforming the country's education landscape? Further, why are the analyses of the dismal state of Philippine education tiresome in their repetition year after year?
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    Banning commercial foresting: what are the costs?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    The Philippines' forest cover has suffered from massive denudation through the years due to uncontrolled and indiscriminate commercial logging. Because of this, calls for a total logging ban had been raised in various fora, including in the legislature where bills that consider the possibility of a ban are being studied.
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    Research and development in the Philippine fisheries sector: a critical review

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1999
    Given the importance of fishing as an income and employment-generating activity in the coastal areas of the Philippines, its revival as a key sector in the country's overall development takes on a critical dimension.

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