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Health care service in the country is designed to be delivered under a referral network. Traditionally, an ordinary citizen would go to a clinic or ba..

For the Philippines, quantitative policy analysis should incorporate regional differences in welfare and economic structure, which arise partly from g..

The paper examines the progress being made in local finance reforms and indicates pathways to advance those reforms. A summary of the effects of decen..

This paper develops a modality of liberalization for APEC, based on a sectoral level, as an alternative to the politically sensitive Free Trade Area o..

Fruits and vegetables comprise a large and dynamic subsector within Philippine agriculture. However, the country’s agricultural development strategy..

In the effort to effectively monitor the progress or drawbacks in the fight against poverty to formulate more effective poverty reduction programs, th..

Philippine cities provide the highest levels of service and living standards in the country. Much of what happens to the country in terms of productio..

This report argues that improving local service delivery (LSD) is about improving people’s lives. It is premised on the idea that better provision o..

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..

Most countries generally equate development to economic growth and vice versa. Years of economic growth, however, have failed to uplift the lives of F..

Education in the Philippines for many years now has suffered much in terms of quality. True, while access to education may no longer be an issue toda..

How should local service delivery of public goods and services be improved for desirable development outcomes? This paper attempts at answering this q..

Numerous studies have tried to explain the poor growth performance of the Philippines. This paper critically reviews related literature on constraints..

In a country where poverty is prevalent, a significant number of children are likely to be illiterate, malnourished, and prone to abuse and physical v..

The 2008 global economic and financial crisis spawned a synchronized recession among industrialized countries leading to a contraction in world trade...