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The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …
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Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover … effects - fellow migrants share information with other neighboring migrants, thereby lowering the costs of migration. To … growth in the number of succeeding migrants. We find that current and past migration from one municipality induces …
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The implementation of the "Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997", CHED Memorandum Order No. 20, and "Public Higher Education Reform Framework" granted state universities and colleges (SUCs) the right to corporatize and manage their own incomes. Given these laws and rules, an...
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, respectively. We investigated whether deployment, remittances, and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are inclusive given the … impulses emanating from deployment, remittances, and FDI flows. Empirical results revealed the following key findings: (1 …) deployment, remittances, and FDI flows are not inclusive because it worsens the situation in the agricultural sector; (2 …
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Several studies on the impact of international migration and remittances on household outcomes have been released …
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This study evaluates the Philippines' absorptive performance for foreign aid, particularly during the six-year period 2003 to 2008, and compare this to that of the previous period, 1986 to 1988. We observe that the country's capacity to absorb foreign aid has declined during the period under...
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The Philippines' recent economic performance has been remarkable amid the lingering slowdown in the global economy and the devastation brought about by recent natural disasters. The economy grew by 7.2 percent in 2013, substantially higher than its 6.8 percent growth in 2012. With GDP growth...
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This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing … examining remittance effects. These are the presence of zero expenditures, heterogeneity of the nationally representative sample …, and inaccuracy of the FIES data on remittance. Zero expenditures were taken into account by using the censored Tobit model …
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The Philippine economy has manifested signs of recovery due to various factors such as political and economic stabilization. Hence, inflows are expected to continue in the future. While these capital flows are positive developments, it carries with it adverse impacts on the real sector of the...
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research into the following areas: (a) demographic processes (fertility, mortality, migration, gender in demographic process …
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