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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..

With the technology available nowadays, new trails in delivering financial services have been set. This is known as branchless banking which delivers ..

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..

This study reviewed the local service delivery of potable water nationally and analyzed the same in the case study areas of Dumaguete City and Agusan ..

This Note provides an account of the problems underlying local service delivery (LSD) in the Philippines and presents some prospective solutions. The ..

Who holds the "power of the purse" in terms of control and disbursement of the national budget in the Philippines? Congress (the House of Representati..

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 main feature in this issue points out the importance of recognizing the right of Filipino indigenous children to be culturally different from the ..

How does Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental measure up to the UN-MDG target of having access to safe drinking water available to 86.6 percent of a coun..

There is another kind of crisis that is equally devastating as the global economic and financial crisis, perhaps even more threatening, with mankinds ..

This note shows that unit labor costs, the most widely used measure of competitiveness, are equivalent to the labor share in output multiplied by a pr..

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

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberaliza..

The measurement of vulnerability, as in the probability that a household becomes poor, is concomitant to the analysis of poverty. To estimate househol..