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    Price collection for the Consumer Price Index: a documentation

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    The quality of poverty estimates relies heavily on the data sources. One of the sources of data for poverty estimation in the Philippines is the retail price collected by the National Statistics Office. The retail prices are used, along with or in the absence of price data of certain commodities from the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, for costing the poverty thresholds.
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    Economic impact of international migration and remittances on Philippine households: what we thought we knew, what we need to know

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    Several studies on the impact of international migration and remittances on household outcomes have been released recently. Many were found to have conflicting results. This paper attempts to shed light on the conflicting results by reviewing the empirical studies that use large-scale and nationally representative data sets from the Philippines.
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    The policy development process and the agenda for effective institutions: the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    A developing economy such as the Philippines has to create an enabling environment for economic growth and development. But how does one nudge forward the creation of such an environment? This paper departs from the usual discourse on the need for effective implementing institutions.
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    Measuring economic lifecycle and flows across population age groups: data and methods in the application of the NTA in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    The age structure of the population of the Philippines, as in many developing countries in the world, will be experiencing significant changes in the next four decades. These changes can have potentially important implications on economic development. Many studies in the Philippines have examined the population-development linkages.
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    International remittances and household expenditures: the Philippine case

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    The inflow of international remittances to the Philippines has been recently increasing at phenomenal rates. Official data indicates that from 2001 to 2006, remittances have been growing at an average rate of over 16 percent annually. This suggests that within the said period it doubled and reached a crucial amount of US$12.7 billion or 11 percent of the country’s GDP.
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    The dynamics of Philippines-Japan economic cooperation: the case of Japan's Official Development Assistance in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement is envisioned to further boost Japan's ODA to the Philippines, particularly for capital formation in the infrastructure sector. It will stimulate an increase in investment and capital accumulation causing more employment opportunities to be created. Output capacity will expand and so with cost of production.
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    Children and the labor force participation and earnings of parents in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    How children affects the labor force participation and earnings of mothers and fathers can spell the difference on whether additional children are can expect the needed care or not. When parents exert more effort with additional children, then their impact of on the welfare of the family will be mitigated.
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    Global study on child poverty and disparities: the case of the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    In a country where poverty is prevalent, a significant number of children are likely to be illiterate, malnourished, and prone to abuse and physical violence. The Philippines is no different.
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    Microfinance approach to housing: The community mortgage program

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    The paper provides an assessment of the Community Mortgage Program as a government-housing program for households belonging to the lowest income deciles. The assessment was carried out using the case study approach. Four CMP communities in Quezon City, Rizal and Quezon Province were selected as case study areas.
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    Poverty profile of the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    Poverty incidence has been declining in the Philippines over the past 10 years. However, with the advent of the Asian crisis in 1997, there was a reversal in poverty trends. Estimates indicate that the headcount index has gone up to 40 percent in 1998 from 31.8 percent in 1997.

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