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    Rainbow at risk: improving South Africa's prospects

    Institute for Security Studies, 2016
    South Africa needs to build an inclusive economy where broad-basedeconomic growth creates productive jobs for the unemployed; increases
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    Avoiding the resource curse in Lebanon

    Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, 2016
    The discovery and extraction of oil and gas off the shores of Lebanon could ultimately translate into a boom in revenues for the government, which in light of current poor fiscal planning could lead to an uncontrolled expansionary budget policy and eventually a ‘resource curse’.
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    Call Center: a Sunrise Industry?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    The call center industry is one of the country’s bright prospects in the area of business process outsourcing (BPO). It started in year 2000 and became a significant activity in the services sector. In 2004, the country captured 20 percent of the total world market share in contact center services and is estimated to capture 50 percent of the total English- speaking world market by 2008.
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    An exegesis of mediocrity: institutions and inclusion in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    The lack of inclusivity of economic growth characterizes Philippine development. This is evident in the perennially inadequate, poor-quality, and non-inclusive public goods and services despite a growing economy. This Policy Note, contributed by a National Scientist of the Philippines, explains this phenomenon through the concept of collective action.
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    The impact of credit on productivity and growth of rural nonfarm enterprises

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    This study looks at the status of rural nonfarm enterprises (RNEs) in the Visayas area. Descriptive statistics indicate that majority of the RNEs are micro- and cottage-sized enterprises managed by the owner/operator only. Very few can be considered small-scale.
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    An Analysis of Industry and Sector-Specific Impacts of a Japan-Philippines economic partnership

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    This paper aims to identify industry and macro-level factors that affect competitiveness of selected sectors upon the implementation of the JPEPA. Priority sectors identified by the Department of Trade and Industry, accounting for 82% of total Philippine exports to Japan in 2002, were included in the study.
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    Prospects and problems of expanding trade with Japan: a survey of Philippine exporters

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    This paper looks at firm-level factors that affect Philippine exports to Japan with the main objective of recommending provisions for the proposed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) that will enable existing and prospective Philippine exporters to fully exploit the potential of the Japanese market.
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    Two essays on regional economic integration in East Asia

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Regional economic integration in East Asia has gained momentum in the aftermath of the 1997 financial crisis and the escalation of international terrorism. In the first essay, the integration process in Europe and East Asia is compared briefly. This is followed by a discussion on the expansion process by the European Union and how East Asia can learn from this.
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    Trade reforms, unemployment, household income and welfare: the Philippine case

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003
    The Philippine government pursued major structural economic reforms in the last one and a half decades. One of the sectors where reforms were vigorously pursued is the foreign trade, in which policies of tariff reduction, simplification of tariff structure, and “tariffication” of quantitative restrictions were implemented.
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    The business cycle in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    This paper provides an overall picture of the Philippine business cycles covering the period 1981 to 2003 by characterizing them in terms of volatility, co-movement and persistence. As a trend-cycle decomposition technique, the most frequently used Hodrick Prescott filter was applied.

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