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Bettin, Giulia; Turco, Alessia Lo; Maggioni, Daniela - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

A production-theory approach to migration is adopted in this paper to address the role of migrant workers from extra-EU countries in Italian manufacturing production at the firm-level. The use of exible functional forms to model firm-level technology lets us directly derive different measures of...

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Living on the margin: Assessing the economic impacts of Landcare in the Philippine uplands

Newby, Jonathan C.; Cramb, Rob A. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009

In the Philippines, about 38 per cent of the population resides in rural areas where poverty remains a significant …

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Group Versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines

Karlan, Dean; Giné, Xavier - 2007

this paper, Karlan and his co-authors discuss the results of a field experiment at a bank in the Philippines, where they …

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Analysis of Technical Efficiency in a Rainfed Lowland Rice Environment in Central Luzon Philippines Using a Stochastic Frontier Production Function with a Heteroskedastic Error Str...

Villano, Renato A.; Fleming, Euan M. - School of Economics, Business School - 2004

There have been many previous studies of technical inefficiency in rice production in the Philippines, but none has …

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MEASURING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TECHNICAL PROGRESS IN LOW-INCOME AGRICULTURE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT AND FOREST PRESSURE IN PALAWAN, THE PHILIPPINES

Shively, Gerald E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

Data from the Philippines are used to measure impacts of technical progress in lowland agriculture on upland forests …

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Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre - 2007

This Innocenti Digest on 'Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities' examines the situation of approximately 200 million children with disabilities around the world and identifies ways to support the realization of their rights. Children with disabilities constantly face barriers to the...

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The Health Sector and Social Policy Reform in the Philippines since 1985

Nuqui, Wilfredo G. - 1991

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Children of the Runaway Cities: The impact of urban poverty on childhood and family life in the Philippines

Black, Maggie - 1991

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Securing Medical Personnel: Case Studies of Two Source Countries and Two Destination Countries

Yamagata, Tatsufumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

medical personnel, the cases of four countries, namely the Philippines and South Africa as source countries and Saudi Arabia …

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Case Study of Applied LIP Approach/Activities in the Philippines The Training Services Enhancement Project for Rural Life Improvement (TSEP-RLI) Experience

Fementira, Graciana B. - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

TSEP-RLI was a technical cooperation project jointly conducted by GOP thru DA-Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) and GOJ thru JICA aimed at institutionalizing the training program for Rural Life Improvement (RLI) at the (ATI). As expected, farmers, fisherfolk, women, youth and extension...

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