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Costs and Spillovers of the AFP vs. NPA Armed Conflicts: Metro Manila - Rizal Case Study

Jun 01, 2006

DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV No. 4-b

This article discusses the costs and spillovers of the armed conflict on Metro Manila and Rizal province. Documents recovered by AFP operatives indica..

Development Research News

The Bias Against Muslims: a Creeping Perception

Jun 01, 2006

DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV No. 4-a

Would you be willing to have a Muslim in your house as boarder? Or hire a Muslim woman as househelp or a Muslim man as worker in your company? How abo..

Development Research News

Can the Philippine Film Industry Follow Bollywood?

Jun 01, 2006

DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV No. 3

Can the Philippines be another Bollywood? Can it follow the relative success of India and other countries such as China, Korea, and Japan in penetrati..

Development Research News

Ideologically Motivated Conflicts in the Philippines: Exploring the Possibility of an Early Warning System

Jun 01, 2006

DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV No. 2-b

This article takes a closer look at the decades-long armed confrontation between the government and the rebel groups, and explores the potential benef..

Development Research News

Cross-border Trade in Higher Education: What Are Our Chances?

Jun 01, 2006

DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV No. 2-a

The old adage, "quality, not quantity," sums up the defining criterion that separates the winning schools and countries from the rest in today's race ..

Development Research News

Driving the Philippine Economy in 2006

Jun 01, 2006

DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV No. 1

What awaits the Philippines this year? For the past years, Dr. Josef Yap has written fearless forecasts for the country and discussed the various issu..

Development Research News

Microinsurance in the Philippines: Policy and Regulatory Issues and Challenges

Jun 01, 2006

DP 2006-25

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

Discussion Papers

Innovations as Response to Failures in Rural Financial Markets

Jun 01, 2006

DP 2006-24

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

Discussion Papers

Towards Financing the Millennium Development Goals of the Philippines

Jun 01, 2006

DP 2006-23

This study resulted from UNDP’s interest in the Philippine proposal for debt-to-MDG financing presented to the United Nations in September 2005. It ..

Discussion Papers

Alternative Means Testing Options Using CBMS

Jun 01, 2006

DP 2006-22

The study proposes an alternative means to the present manner of identifying eligible Philhealth beneficiaries through the use of three criteria, name..

Discussion Papers

Land Reform and Changes in Land Ownership Concentration: Evidence from Rice-Growing Villages in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2006

DP 2006-21

This paper examines the effect of land reform and land transfer actions of farmer beneficiaries on land ownership concentration. A case study of two r..

Discussion Papers

FDI Investment Incentive System and FDI Inflows: The Philippine Experience

Jun 01, 2006

DP 2006-20

This paper examines the country’s investment incentive program for foreign investors and its success in attracting substantial FDI inflows. The anal..

Discussion Papers

Paradigms of Decentralization, Institutional Design, and Poverty: Drinking Water in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2006

DP 2006-19

This paper looks at the different paradigms of decentralization for drinking water supply in the Philippines and its effectiveness in poverty alleviat..

Discussion Papers

Determinants of Export Performance in the Philippine Manufacturing Sector

Jun 01, 2006

DP 2006-18

The paper determines the factors affecting the export performance of firms in three main manufacturing sectors in the Philippines. Specifically, firm-..

Discussion Papers

Gender-Responsive Budgeting through the CBMS Lens

Jun 01, 2006

DP 2006-17

This paper results from a series of international workshops that brought together CBMS and GRB practitioners to discuss how the community-based monito..

Discussion Papers

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