B - Matches

A developing economy such as the Philippines has to create an enabling environment for economic growth and development. But how does one nudge forward..

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In thi..

The prevalence of hunger in the Philippines prompted the government to launch its hunger mitigation initiative in November 2005. The initiative consis..

Labor migration is a subject that is very familiar to most Filipinos. More than any nation in East Asia, the Philippines has the most number of migran..

This paper explores the heterogeneity of the migrant experience using the Bukidnon Panel Survey, which follows up 448 families in rural Mindanao who w..

This paper proposes a pricing model for health care markets wherein providers and patients play a Nash bargaining game. In this game, bargaining power..

Recent controversies about certain government infrastructure projects, especially those agreed upon under the framework of the build-operate-transfer ..

Globalization and pressure from increased competition have led to “splintering” of in-house services from formerly integrated manufacturing firms ..

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to income poverty are developed using..

This Notes calls for the need to regularly come up with household vulnerability measurements and trends in the Philippines, in addition to official po..

Almost three years after the government launched two hunger-mitigation initiatives--the Food-for-School and Tindahan Natin programs--questions are bei..

In the past few years, the government has developed and installed a unique model of performance-based budgeting known as the Organizational Performanc..

This paper presents some of the preliminary results and findings of an ongoing study jointly conducted by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Ce..

This paper demonstrates how family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this l..

Promotion of hybrid rice has been the central goal of the government's rice production program since 2001. Yet, farmers' adoption rate has remained lo..