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Does Trade Lead to a Race to the Bottom in Environmental Standards? Another Look at the Issues

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-23

With rising globalization and advances in technology, the interrelationship between trade and the environment has increasingly become a pressing issue..

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Poverty, Fertility Preferences and Family Planning Practice in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-22

This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences and family planning practice in the Philippines using the series of nationally r..

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Number of Children and their Education in Philippine Households

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-21

This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this li..

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Children and the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Parents in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-20

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..

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Poverty, Vulnerability and Family Size: Evidence from the Philippines

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-19

This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to household poverty. It presents results from recent research by the author us..

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Competition Policy and Regulation in Power and Telecommunications

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-18

Following the global trend in using private sector participation in infrastructure financing and development, the Philippines has largely utilized pri..

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Human Resource Development and Poverty in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-17

In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other countries in the region, the Phi..

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The Impact of Fiscal Restraint on Budgetary Allocations for Women's Programs

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-16

The paper reviews the gender-differentiated effect of macroeconomic policies by examining the impact of persistent revenue shortfalls on the part of t..

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Rice in the Filipino Diet and Culture

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-15

This paper deals with a basic question: How central is rice to the Filipino, what are its implications for understanding the way we approach and regar..

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The Evolution of Rice Production Practices

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-14

This paper presents a summary of the evolution of major practices in rice production over the last 100 years in the country. These practices essential..

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Rice and Philippine Politics

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-13

Using a political economy perspective, this paper establishes the strong relationship between rice and politics and explains recent developments in th..

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A Century of Rice Innovations

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-12

Rice innovations are technologies and practices extensively adopted so as to change production practices and productivity. This paper documents the ch..

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Rice that Filipinos Grow and Eat

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-11

This paper introduces rice to the reader and analyzes the changes it has gone through these past 100 years in the shaping hands of varietal improvemen..

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The Business Cycle in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-10

This paper provides an overall picture of the Philippine business cycles covering the period 1981 to 2003 by characterizing them in terms of volatilit..

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Globalization, Redemocratization and the Philippine Bureaucracy

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-09

The increasing demands and expectations placed upon the Philippine bureaucracy by a redemocratizing society are further amplified by the strengthening..

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