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    The impact of the global financial crisis on rural and microfinance in Asia

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    Using data from a quick survey of various rural (RFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in East Asia, the paper tries to find out how those institutions and their clientele have been affected by the global financial crisis, how they have coped with the ongoing crisis, and what they plan to do in the future to ensure the stability of the rural financial system and the continuing access of cl
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    Motives and giving norms behind remittances: the case of Filipino overseas workers and their recipient households

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    Literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behaviour. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are apt to be influenced by giving norms as well. In this paper, the authors formulate an empirical specification that takes account of remittance motives involving worker-household pairs.
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    Trends in household Vulnerability

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Increasingly, development policy has taken a social reform focus. Public policies and government programs articulated in the Medium Term Philippine Development Plans reflect the thrust toward sustainable development.
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    K-Developedia

    K-Developedia is an open access repository that contains more than 35,000 resources on Korean development experience.Key features:
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    Are we winning the fight against poverty? An assessment of the poverty situation in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    In 2006, poverty incidence in the Philippines went up by 3 percentage points from 2003, marking a reversal against the downward trend in previous poverty estimates. This upward trend went against expectations after the Philippine economy exhibited a relatively robust performance during this period. The reasons as to why this has happened are explored in this paper.
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    Chronic and transient poverty (PIDS)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    The Philippines has been posting progress in terms of poverty reduction since the early 1990s. However, reversal in the trend was observed in 2006.
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    Linking poverty and the environment: evidence from slums in Philippine cities

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    The Philippines is among the countries in Asia with large number of urban slum dwellers. 
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    Social protection in the Philippines: current state and challenges

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    The global financial crisis highlighted the many challenges that social protection systems in different countries face. These challenges are often not  new, but in fact have long been recognized yet were largely ignored, leading to threats to sustainability.
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    Assessing the resilience of ASEAN banking systems

    2012
    Since the global financial crisis in 2008/09 there has been heightened concern about the resilience of banking systems in Southeast Asia. This paper proposes a methodology that uses a macroprudential perspective to assess the resilience of banking systems in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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    Poverty and agriculture in the Philippines: trends in income poverty and distribution

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up further to 26.5 percent in 2009.

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