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    Addressing land degradation: benefits, costs, and policy directions

    Philippine Journal of Development, 2010
    Land degradation in the Philippines is a serious environmental problem with long-term implications for the sustainability of agricultural production. Protection of the resource base has thus become a policy priority, whether in terms of improving crop management in the lowlands or more urgently, arresting soil erosion in the uplands.
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    Social capital and the decision to adopt new technology among rice farmers in the Philippines

    Philippine Journal of Development, 2010
    Conventional models predict that a rational farmer, given information of higher profits from a new technology relative to the old, would shift to the new technology. However, evidence abounds to the contrary.
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    A review of social insurance in the Philipppines

    Philippine Journal of Development, 2009
    This paper aims to review and assess the protection afforded by the Social Security System (SSS) and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), two of the three agencies tasked with administering social insurance in the country.
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    Managing urbanization under decentralized governance framework: volume 1

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    Managing Urbanization Under a Decentralized Governance Framework (Volume 1) is the first of two volumes on urban management. It documents the urbanization process in selected Philippine cities in the context of a decentralized environment for governance resulting from the passage of the Local Government Code of 1991.
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    Managing urbanization under a decentralized governance framework (Volume 2)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    Managing Urbanization Under a Decentralized Governance Framework (Volume 2) is a companion piece to Volume 1, which offers the institutional details of managing and delivering urban services.
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    Closing the urban fiscal gap: some considerations

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1999
    While urbanization has several advantages, there are also certain problems associated with it. This issue takes a brief look at the urban fiscal gap problem. It also investigates the factors and the interventions that could help overcome the barriers brought about by the fiscal gap.
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    The silent dangers of quarrying

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    Quarrying contributes significantly to the Philippines' infrastructure and overall economic development. Notwithstanding its importance, however, it is a major natural resource extractive sector that causes significant environmental problems. And the sooner we understand the nature and extent of its destruction and be able to do something to address it, the better.
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    Does coastal resources management help? Ask the fishermen!

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Coastal resources management (CRM) has flourished as a management approach for coastal areas and resources in the Philippines. This is shown in the phenomenal growth of CRM and CRM-type of activities over the past two decades or so.
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    Lessons from Cambodia... Exploring the potential of inland fisheries and aquatic resources in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    Traditionally, the inland fisheries subsector of the Philippines has been a modest contributor to overall fisheries production. The Philippines and Cambodia both abound in numerous freshwater bodies and resources that provide an economic and food base for rural people in the inland areas.
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    Performance and problems of water districts: selected experiences

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    Water districts are local service providers that operate Level III water systems in areas of the Philippines outside Metro Manila.In terms of population coverage, therefore, water districts are the dominant local water service providers. But while water districts are clearly important,the percentage of the national population serviced by them remains low.

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