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The 2011 and 2012 fiscal program appears to score high in terms of contributing to the speed of fiscal consolidation despite limited gains in revenue ..
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Water is one of the basic necessities in life, along with food and shelter. It must be clean, safe, and adequate. However, the number of people living..
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Globalization èßäAV the need for public sector reform, good governance, and state capacity building. Thus, this volume èßäAV the key develop..
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With the political noise brought about by the upcoming national elections as well as the prospects of a global economic recovery as backdrop, what cou..
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The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency
explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregress..
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This paper examines the cost of implementing redistributive land reform in the Philippines. Land redistribution has become the core feature of land re..
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Statistics on the distribution of ODA loans show that the local government sector is the smallest direct recipient of this funding source. While it ha..
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Monitoring the behavior of potential output helps policymakers implement appropriate policies in response to an economic crisis. In the short-run, est..
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The Philippines has used the Build-operate-transfer (BOT) Law as amended to motivate private sector provision of infrastructure. After a brief period ..
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The Asia and Pacific region and Latin American and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic distance, but also by disparit..
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A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has
highlighted the food insecurity problem facing the globe: food production..
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This study evaluates the Philippines` absorptive performance for foreign aid, particularly during the six-year period 2003 to 2008, and compare this t..
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Despite the many propoor policies, programs, and projects instituted, the country's gains in the fight against poverty have still been modest. This No..
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Skilled birth attendance (SBA) is helpful in reducing the risk of postpartum hemorrhage, a leading cause of maternal deaths. The presence of skilled b..
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Agriculture remains a primary source of income for our ruralfolks, and farming remains to be a major means of livelihood. In this issue of the DRN, PI..
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