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    Gender-responsive budgeting through the CBMS lens

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    This paper results from a series of international workshops that brought together CBMS and GRB practitioners to discuss how the community-based monitoring system (CBMS) can be used to facilitate gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) at the local level.
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    Philippine tariff reforms: A CGE analysis

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    The Philippines undergoes a tariff reform program. After more than a decade of implementation, significant achievements have been attained in terms of changes in the tariff structure. For example, quantitative restrictions on important commodities have been tariffied. The tariff structure has been simplified from a multi-layered one into a structure with fewer tariff rates.
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    PIDS Annual Macroeconometric Model 2000

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    The basic framework of the PIDS Annual Macroeconometric Model is presented in this paper. After outlining the general philosophy of the model, the discussion focuses on the production sector of the model in order to trace the manner by which macroeconomic policies affect relative prices and sectoral allocation of resources.
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    Social cash transfers and financial inclusion: evidence from four countries

    Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 2012
    In a number of countries, two separate, but potentially complementary policy agendas have emerged in the past five years: governments have sought to increase the use of electronic means for government payments and to promote greater financial inclusion.
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    The effects of shifting to transaction value and other issues

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    The study takes off from an earlier inquiry on the effects of HCV (home consumption value) valuation. This study is intended to assist policymakers as well as the private sector in their task of deciding whether to implement or postpone the adoption of the GATT Valuation Code (GVC) by January 1, 2000.
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    Innovative features in conditional cash transfers: an impact evaluation of Chile Solidario on households and children

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2012
    Chile Solidario is an avant garde CCT in the Latin American context, introducing innovative features which are aimed at specifically addressing the multidimensional nature of poverty, considered not only as a consequence of the lack of income, but also as a result of low levels of human and social capital, and the vulnerability of a household to shocks.
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    Taxes, transfers, and income redistribution in Latin America

    World Bank, 2012
    How much reduction in inequality and poverty does Latin America accomplish through taxes and transfers? How progressive are revenue-collection and social-spending patterns? This new 'Inequality in Focus' Brief from the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Equity Department explores these questions.
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    Direct distribution of oil revenues in Venezuela: a viable alternative?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2012
    Venezuela is the textbook case of a resource-rich country. Between 1950 and 2008, oil generated over $1 trillion of income for the state. The country’s proven reserves, at 7 million barrels per Venezuelan, are the largest in the world and will last 270 years at current production rates.
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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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    Financing agricultural value chains in Latin America: barriers and opportunities in Mexico, Peru and Honduras

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2014
    Small and medium commercial family farms in Latin America represent a large and important portion of the agricultural sector, with significant potential for catalyzing economic growth in the region. Despite this potential, small and medium producers often face several key constraints when looking to traditional lenders for credit.

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