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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..

Contract growing has been defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms under forward agreements, usually at predeterm..

This paper aims to provide some information on the implications for the Philippine agriculture sector of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement. In part..

Low-income households find it hard to cope with the risks brought about by an illness or injury, death of a family member, man-made calamities, and na..

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..

The nature of activity of the informal sector may vary across the developed and developing countries, yet it is evident that the sector contributes to..

The application of information and communication technology for improving governance by enhancing government's role in service delivery, public admini..