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This paper aims to review and assess protection afforded by the Social Security System and the Government Service Insurance System, two out of the thr..

Using data from a quick survey of various rural (RFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in East Asia, the paper tries to find out how those insti..

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) recognize the need to understand the link between disability and poverty. In fact this has become one of the k..

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are apt to be influenced by giving no..

In the Philippines, importation has remained as one of the most feasible options for the government to meet the growing demand for rice. It is thus im..

Using data from the 2003 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and 2005 Community-based Monitoring System for a city, Multivariate Adaptive Regression ..

This paper discusses public and private institutions that were established in the Philippines to provide services to Filipino international migrant wo..

The purpose of the paper was to summarize studies identifying the causes and effects of Philippine international labor migration and remittances and t..

The paper characterizes how international labor migration became an enduring feature in the country鈥檚 development. It presents data on the flow of t..

This report argues that improving local service delivery (LSD) is about improving people鈥檚 lives. It is premised on the idea that better provision o..

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

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 ..

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..