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    Toward a strategic urban development and housing policy for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    Philippine cities provide the highest levels of service and living standards in the country. Much of what happens to the country in terms of production and employment, income and consumption, and access to basic services and amenities will continue to be determined by the performance of its urban system. Overall, however, the Philippines is characterized by its lack of urban competitiveness.
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    Housing policy, strategy and recent developments in market-based housing finance

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1999
    The rapid formation of new households in the Philippines, especially in urban areas, has contributed to an acute demand for housing that the market has not satisfied. The demand-supply gap is mostly noticeable at the lower end of the housing market as low-income households fail to have access to decent housing.
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    Tagum City: Development at the Crossroads

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Population processes and outcomes (in this case, urbanization) influences and changes the development of an area and vice versa. In the case of Tagum City, its growing economy is presumed to be attracting considerable movement of people which proves to present both opportunities and challenges for the local government.
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    Local Governance and the challenges of economic distress: the case of Iligan City

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Trends in economic development influence population outcomes in an area. Increasing economic opportunities that are typically linked to industrialization enhance the attractiveness of a location and result to population increases. The inverse of this process could also be true, that is, an economic distress could hit an area and force its residents to leave and seek better forts.
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    Metro Cebu: A metropolitan area in need of coordinative body

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Urbanization and rapid increase in population in Metro Cebu brought about increased demand for basic services and infrastructure. The creation of the Metro Cebu Development Council comprising of the four (4) cities and six (6) municipalities in the eastern part of the Cebu Province, as an organizational structure, attempts to address these problems.
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    Lipa City...emerging city for all seasons???

    2004
    The paper focuses on the socioeconomic development experience of Lipa in its journey to being an emerging city. Specifically, it presents the urbanization process in the city particularly the demographic and socioeconomic process with emphasis on the changing economic structure as well as the living condition of the populace.
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    Investing in local roads for economic growth

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Local road investments work for growth and poverty reduction in local areas. The paper highlights the importance of investing in local roads and directs attention to the critical role of local government units (LGUs) in improving the local road network. Raising additional monies to fund local roads is only partly a solution.
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    Water in Metro Cebu: the case for policy and institutional reforms

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1998
    The purpose of this paper is to analyze the policy and institutional factors that may be constraining the efficient, equitable, and sustainable management of water resource in Metro Cebu. Over the past decade, Metro Cebu has been rapidly moving towards growth and industrialization contributing as much as seventy percent to Visayas’ industrial output.
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    Welcome address: NEDA-PIDS seminar-workshop on the Philippine system of national accounts

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    This article is part of the NEDA-PIDS Seminar-Workshop on the Philippine System of National Accounts. It outlines the seminar’s major objectives and the problems and issues that need to be addressed. It argues that coordination among institutions can lead to effective resolution to sensitive issues.
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    An inquiry into the competitiveness of emerging Philippine cities

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    This paper attempts to approximate the competitiveness of the country’s ten leading emerging urban centers: Angeles, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Davao City, General Santos, Iligan, Iloilo, San Fernando La Union, Tacloban and Zamboanga.

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