This study reexamines the available evidence on the often-repeated claim that international migration of a household member and the resulting remittances typically lead to laziness in the receiving households. The study ?nds, after replicating previous studies and testing the claim using more...

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This paper is a comparative dexriptive analysis of inflation in the Asian region. It looks at the level and movement, as well as the auses, of inflation in each ADB member country. The inflation rate is found to be generally low and double digit levels occurred only intermittently ue to external...

The paper documents the interlocking directorates of banks with other financial and nonfinancial firms which belong to the top 1,000 corporations in the Philippines. Within the interlocked group of firms are the large conglomerates of leading families. Additionally, there is interlocking within...

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Philippine higher education (HE) plays an important role in the country’s economy and is vital in achieving global competitiveness.Poor quality,undeveloped innovation system, and inequality of access caused the current dismal state of the HE system.This could be traceable to the populist...