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    Can the services sector be an engine of economic growth for the Philippines?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    The services sector in the Philippines has been experiencing a robust growth in recent years, prompting proposals for the country to “abandon” the manufacturing sector and shift its policy in support of the services sector.
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    Supporting innovative small and medium enterprises: new ideas from Taiwan and Korea

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in economic growth and development. In the member countries of the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), more than 90 percent of enterprises are SMEs, accounting for about 75 percent of the gross domestic product, as compared with 50 percent in the rest of the world.
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    Understanding the recent rise in poverty incidence: a look at growth and income distribution effects

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    This policy notes briefly discusses the factors behind the worsening of the poverty situation from 2003 to 2006, with the objective of drawing critical policy insights for effective poverty reduction strategies. In sum, it states that the rise in the poverty rate was due to lack of growth of real income and worsening income distribution.
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    How do Philippine provinces fare in terms of human development?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    The 2008/2009 Philippine Human Development Report (PHDR), which carries the fifth update of the provincial human development indices (HDIs) in the country, looks more closely into this concernas it presents the interprovince measures of the subcomponents of human development.
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    A note on defining the dependent population based on age

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Dependent population is defined as that part of the population that does not work and relies on others for the goods and services they consume. In practice, specific population age groups have in their entirety been categorised as dependent population, even while the definition may not necessarily apply to every individual in the population with the indicated ages.
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    Impact of microfinance on rural households in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    This paper reports on the impact evaluation study of the Rural Microenterprise Finance Project (RMFP) in the Philippines. RMFP aimed to support efforts of the Government of the Philippines to strengthen rural financial institutions by assisting organizations that employed the Grameen Bank Approach (GBA) in providing credit to the poor.
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    CARP institutional assessment in a post-2008 transition scenario: toward a new rural development architecture

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    The main objective of the paper is to explore possible institutional arrangements among the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), Philippines, implementing agencies in a post-2008 transition scenario for CARP.
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    Have lifecycle consumption and income patterns in the Philippines Changed between 1994 and 2002?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Have age profiles of consumption and labor income in the Philippines changed from 1994 to 2002? What are the implications of the changes observed in the lifecycle patterns? The National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodologies are applied to estimate the per capita age profiles of current consumption and labor income for the Philippines for the years 1994, 1999, and 2002.
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    Consumption, income, and intergenerational reallocation of resources: application of NTA in the Philippines, 1999

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    A country’s population consists of persons at different ages and stages of their economic lifecycle. Those in the population that are incurring lifecycle deficits would not be able to sufficiently support themselves, while those generating surpluses would have more than they require.
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    Avoiding anomalies of GDP in constant prices by conversion to chained prices: accentuating shifts in Philippine economic transformation

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Changing the base year (1985) of Philippine GDP in constant prices could change the growth rate and the shares of components even when there is no change in the volume of production, implying that the changes in growth rate and shares are anomalous (i.e., no real basis).

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