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    Water service delivery on the ground: targets versus realities (the cases of Dumaguete City and Agusan del Sur)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    In late 2008 and early 2009, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) conducted a study on local service delivery in education, health, and potable water in selected sites in the Philippines, in particular, Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental and the province of Agusan del Sur in Mindanao.
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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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    How are DOH hospitals funded?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    As of 2009, there was a total of 1,822 licensed public and private hospitals with the Department of Health (DOH). Of this number, public hospitals accounted for only 40 percent. Despite this marginal share, public hospitals serve the most number of patients. On average, government hospitals are bigger in size with 68 beds per hospital as opposed to private hospitals with only 44 beds.
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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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    Is PhilHealth’s sponsored program reaching the poorest of the poor?

    2010
    One of the key programmes of the PhilHealth is its Sponsored Program for the less privileged wherein health insurance coverage is open to qualified indigents belonging to the lowest 25 percent of the Philippine population.
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    Can imports discipline collusive firms? The case of the Philippine cement industry

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Historically, the Philippine cement industry thrived under a government-sanctioned cartel. Due to the economic slump in the early 1970s, cement firms pushed for government regulation to prevent cut throat competition. The government allocated supply, controlled prices and regulated entry in the industry.
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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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    Managing capital flows: the case of the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    During the previous five years or so, most East Asian economies including the Philippines experienced a rising level of foreign exchange reserves and rapidly appreciating currencies both in nominal and real terms. One cause has been the resurgence of capital flows, which makes the issue of how to manage them relevant.
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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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