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Making Reforms Truly Transform: the Case of Philippine Basic Education

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-12

Looking at the analyses and issues raised on the dismal state of Philippine education, one is confronted with the realization that the issues raised a..

Policy Notes

Focus on Barangay Economic Development

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-11

Because the barangay is considered to be the local government unit closest to the people in terms of access and proximity, its role in local service d..

Policy Notes

Assessing LGUs' Health Service Delivery Performance: the Cases of Agusan del Sur and Dumaguete City

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-10

With the devolution of health service delivery from the Department of Health to local government units (LGUs) as mandated in the 1991 Local Government..

Policy Notes

Looking at Conditions of Persons with Disability in Metro Manila

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-09

How comprehensive and accurate is our knowledge and understanding of one vulnerable sector in our society--the people with disability? How can the gov..

Policy Notes

Who Really Holds the "Power of the Purse?"

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-08

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..

Policy Notes

What Ails Local Service Delivery of Public Goods and Services?

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-07

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

Policy Notes

Child Poverty in the Philippines: More Children Suffer as Poverty Rises

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-06

Who suffer most in times of poverty, crises, and calamities? What is the current situation of children in the Philippines amid poverty and hunger? Rey..

Policy Notes

In Pursuit of Sex Parity: Are Girls Becoming more Educated than Boys?

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-05

One of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is the elimination of gender disparity in primary and secondary education. Global initiatives toward th..

Policy Notes

Housing Policy for the Poor: Revisiting UDHA and CISFA

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-04

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..

Policy Notes

The 2008 Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Impact on the Philippines and Policy Responses at the National and Regional Levels

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-03

What has really been the extent of the effects of the 2008 global financial and economic crisis on the Philippines? How do they compare with the rest ..

Policy Notes

Performance and Problems of Water Districts: Selected Experiences

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-02

While water districts, as local service providers of level III water systems outside of Metro Manila, are already important, the percentage of the nat..

Policy Notes

Water Service Delivery on the Ground: Targets versus Realities (the Cases of Dumaguete City and Agusan del Sur)

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-01

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..

Policy Notes

Unemployment and Inflation in the Philippines: New Evidence from Vector Error Correction Model

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2008 Vol. XXXV No. 1-d

This article empirically analyzes the relationship between unemployment rate and inflation rate in the Philippines over the period 1980-2006. The nega..

Philippine Journal of Development

Fishpen and Fischcage Culture in Laguna de Bay: Status, Economic Importance, and the Relative Severity of Problems Affecting its Practice

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2008 Vol. XXXV No. 1-c

This paper reviews the status of fishpen and fishcage culture in Laguna de Bay, with emphasis on its economic importance and the relative severity of ..

Philippine Journal of Development

Toward Measuring Household Vulnerability to Income Poverty in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2008 Vol. XXXV No. 1-b

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

Philippine Journal of Development

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