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    Sustaining Philippine advantage in business process outsourcing

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    This study looked at the sustainability of the growth and development of business process outsourcing (BPO) in the Philippines. It was prompted by the sector`s spectacular growth in several of its subsectors, mainly contact call centers, medical transcription, animation, and software development.
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    Financing the Millennium Development Goals: the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    The improving fiscal situation in the Phili ppines presents an opportune time for the government to re-assess the resource requir ements of achieving the MDGs and to exercise greater vigilance in ensuring that the MDGs benefit from the fiscal space that has been created. In response, this study updated and expanded the earlier study on the financing of MDGs that was completed in 200 2.
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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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    Has liberalization strengthened the link between services and manufacturing?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Globalisation and pressure from increased competition have led to “splintering” of in-house services from formerly integrated manufacturing firms in developed economies and, at the same time, to an increase in “outsourcing” of these same services.
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    Assessing the competitiveness of the Philippine auto parts industry

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    In its effort to develop the domestic manufacture of automotive parts and components, the Philippine government adopted local content requirements which protected the industry for almost thirty years. The government also imposed high tariffs coupled with import restrictions on the importation of motor vehicles.
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    Integrated financial supervision: an institutional perspective for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    The literature on the Asian financial crisis typically contends that financial liberalization and the removal of obstacles to foreign borrowing by banks and the corporate sector, coupled with poor and inadequate prudential supervision, gave rise to the risk of moral hazard and the resulting financial crisis.
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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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    A cautionary note on the interpretation of unit labor costs as an indicator of competitiveness, with reference to the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    This note shows that unit labor costs, the most widely used measure of competitiveness, are equivalent to the labor share in output multiplied by a price-adjustment factor.
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    Some notes on performance management among agencies

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    In the past few years, the Philippines' government has developed and installed a unique model of performance-based budgeting known as the Organizational Performance Indicator Framework (OPIF).

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