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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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    Social insurance in the Philippines: responding to the global financial crisis and beyond

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    This paper aims to review and assess protection afforded by the Social Security System and the Government Service Insurance System, two out of the three agencies tasked with administering social insurance in the country.
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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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    Institutions serving Philippine international labor migrants

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    This paper discusses public and private institutions that were established in the Philippines to provide services to Filipino international migrant workers. Thirty years of having explicit policy on international labor migration has resulted to the creation of various public agencies to promote, manage, and protect migrant workers.
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    The social and economic impact of Philippine international labor migration and remittances

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    The purpose of the paper is to summarise studies identifying the causes and effects of Philippine international labor migration and remittances and to highlight research gaps. Literature and reliability of findings that explore the many facets and implications of the social and economic impacts of international labor migration and remittances were assessed and reviewed.
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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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    The impact of the global financial crisis on poverty in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    The recent global financial and economic crisis which started in the United States and expanded to other developed countries has, to some extent, affected developing countries as well. Given the vulnerability of most developing countries, it is important to monitor the impact of this global crisis on poverty.
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    Scenarios and options for productivity growth in Philippine agriculture: an application of the Agricultural Multimarket Model for Policy Evaluation (AMPLE)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food security. While growth can be achieved by expansion of agricultural area and input intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a promising option. However, productivity growth appears to be a relatively low priority for policy.
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    Assessing the competitiveness of the Philippine IT industry

    2000
    The development experience of the past three decades has demonstrated the strategic role information technology (IT) has on the global economy. As an industry, IT has dominated world trade growth in the 1990s contributing to the rapid growth of exports. As a generic technology, it has also revolutionized production process by cutting costs and enhancing product quality and performance.

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