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The Philippines is a developing country with strong commitment to the millennium development goals (MDGs). However, it faces challenges in closing MDG..
Discussion Papers

The growth rebalancing model, which places the nontradable services sector on center stage, is important to spur on faster growth in this sector and t..
Discussion Papers

This Note discusses two major constraints to agricultural finance that hinder private investments in food production. The policy gaps that need govern..
Policy Notes

A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has
highlighted the food insecurity problem facing the globe: food production..
Discussion Papers

The enactment of two pro-poor housing legislations in the 1990s--the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) of 1992 and the Comprehensive Shelter Fi..
Policy Notes

This paper reports on the impact evaluation study of the Rural Microenterprise Finance Project (RMFP) in the Philippines. RMFP aimed to support effort..
Discussion Papers

When poor households face catastrophic events, they do not have any means for risk protection. Access to formal risk protection schemes such as insura..
Philippine Journal of Development

The paper reviews the innovations developed by some financial institutions to meet the challenges of microfinance and rural finance markets. Innovatio..
Discussion Papers

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that enable microfinance institutions ..
Research Paper Series

This study assesses the state of microinsurance in the country, identifies the players and their performance, and the challenges facing microinsurance..
Discussion Papers

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..
Research Paper Series

This book, which is co-published with the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC), provides a review of carefully selected literature and descriptio..
Books

This paper extends the analysis on microfinance and poverty from the household perspective by focusing on the role of other economically active househ..
Discussion Papers

This paper examines the extent of asset accumulation and saving of the households from the credit they obtained from community-oriented financial inte..
Discussion Papers

This paper examines the borrowing behavior of the households and the suitability of the loans obtained from the community oriented financial intermedi..
Discussion Papers
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