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Ownership and Property Rights Issues in Watershed Resource Management
Well-defined property rights recognize the ownership of material and abstract things. The low enforcement of property rights for a certain resource may lead to its abuse. Hence, its application on watershed needs to be understood. This paper attempts to show the dualistic system of considering property rights and its implication to policy research.natural resources and environment, property rights, watershed
The National Health Accounts of the Philippines: Continuing Development and New Findings
For more than a decade now, the national health accounts (NHA) of the Philippines has been providing data that are important for health policymaking. At present, the NHA not only continues to be important for health policymaking. It has also become indispensable as a tool for monitoring and tracking outcomes of health sector policies. To further expand its usefulness, the Philippine NHA underwent major restructuring, specifically in the classification of health expenditures by uses of funds. The revised NHA now includes several types of breakdown by uses of funds. Analysis of preliminary 2003 estimates of the revised NHA matrices reveals new details of the manner by which health funds are utilized in the Philippines--data that are not available in the original NHA.health sector, national health accounts, health funds
Effects of Agricultural Mechanization on Farm Income Patterns
This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in the Philippines” sponsored jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Economic and Development Authority, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies and the International Rice Research Institute held on December 1-2, 1983 at Tagaytay City. Utilizing cross-section results from a survey conducted, this article measures the importance of mechanization as a source of income variation. Analysis supports the fact that mechanization has effects on income changes. However, this article encourages the use of multivariate analysis for a better assessment of its impact and the inclusion of factor share analysis to account for the distribution of ownership.income changes, agriculture sector, impact analysis, mechanization
The 1979 Diary Family Income and Expenditure Survey: Experience and Preliminary Results
This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics on December 13-14, 1982. The 1979 Diary Family income and Expenditure Survey (DFIES) has utilized the diary method of data collection to minimize, if not eliminate, errors and biases arising from the traditional recall-record method of soliciting information. Jointly conducted by the National Tax Research Center and National Census and Statistics Office, DFIES aims to provide reliable quantitative information regarding personal/additional exemptions and household income/expenditure patterns. This article argues for the utilization of DFIES in the Philippines. Areas for improvement of the system are also cited.income, data and statistics, survey method, data collection
Anisotropy probe of galactic and extra-galactic Dark Matter annihilations
We study the flux and the angular power spectrum of gamma-rays produced by
Dark Matter (DM) annihilations in the Milky Way (MW) and in extra-galactic
halos. The annihilation signal receives contributions from: a) the smooth MW
halo, b) resolved and unresolved substructures in the MW, c) external DM halos
at all redshifts, including d) their substructures. Adopting a self-consistent
description of local and extra-galactic substructures, we show that the
annihilation flux from substructures in the MW dominates over all the other
components for angles larger than O(1) degrees from the Galactic Center, unless
an extreme prescription is adopted for the substructures concentration. We also
compute the angular power spectrum of gamma-ray anisotropies and find that, for
an optimistic choice of the particle physics parameters, an interesting
signature of DM annihilations could soon be discovered by the Fermi LAT
satellite at low multipoles, l<100, where the dominant contribution comes from
MW substructures with mass M>10^4 solar masses. For the substructures models we
have adopted, we find that the contribution of extra-galactic annihilations is
instead negligible at all scales.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figure
The Philippine Health Institutions: Some Problems, Approaches and Policy Issues
This paper presents a brief analysis of the current situation of Philippine health institutions using secondary data. It locates the different types of health institutions, describes its major problems, discusses recent approaches these institutions have adopted to improve delivery of health care services and extricates policy-related issues and data gaps from available literature.health sector, hospitals, hospital care, health centers
Target Zones in History and Theory: Lessons from an Austro-Hungarian Experiment (1896-1914)
The first known experiment with an exchange rate band took place in Austria-
Hungary between 1896 and 1914. The rationale for introducing this policy rested
on precisely those intuitions that the modern literature has emphasized: the band
was designed to secure both exchange rate stability and monetary policy
autonomy. However, unlike more recent experiences, such as the ERM, this
policy was not undermined by credibility problems. The episode provides an ideal
testing ground for some important ideas in modern macroeconomics: specifically,
can formal rules, when faithfully adhered to, provide policy makers with some
advantages such as short term autonomy? First, we find that a credible band has a
"microeconomic" influence on exchange rate stability. By reducing uncertainty, a
credible fluctuation band improves the quality of expectations, a channel that has been neglected in the modern literature. Second, we show that the standard test of the basic target zone model is flawed and develop an alternative methodology. We believe that these findings shed a new light on the economics of exchange rate bands
Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and the "cosmic" Josephson effect
We discuss the possible influence of a cosmic magnetic field on the
macroscopic quantum tunneling process associated, in a cosmological context, to
the decay of the "false vacuum." We find a close analogy with the effects of an
external magnetic field applied to a Josephson junction in the context of
low-temperature/high-temperature superconducting devices.Comment: 4 pages, 1 pdf figure. Added references and an inset in Fig. 1,
results unchanged. To appear in Phys. Rev. D (Brief Report
The National Health Accounts of the Philippines: Continuing Development and New Findings
For more than a decade now, the national health accounts (NHA) of the Philippines has been providing data that are important for health policymaking. At present, the NHA not only continues to be important for health policymaking. It has also become indispensable as a tool for monitoring and tracking outcomes of health sector policies. To further expand its usefulness, the Philippine NHA underwent major restructuring, specifically in the classification of health expenditures by uses of funds. The revised NHA now includes several types of breakdown by uses of funds. Analysis of preliminary 2003 estimates of the revised NHA matrices reveals new details of the manner by which health funds are utilized in the Philippines--data that are not available in the original NHA.health sector, national health accounts, health funds
Effects of Agricultural Mechanization on Farm Income Patterns
This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in the Philippines” sponsored jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Economic and Development Authority, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies and the International Rice Research Institute held on December 1-2, 1983 at Tagaytay City. Utilizing cross-section results from a survey conducted, this article measures the importance of mechanization as a source of income variation. Analysis supports the fact that mechanization has effects on income changes. However, this article encourages the use of multivariate analysis for a better assessment of its impact and the inclusion of factor share analysis to account for the distribution of ownership.income changes, agriculture sector, impact analysis, mechanization
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