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Item Restricted A bank fragility index for the Philippines(1999-03) Gatchalian, Archimedes S.; Oliva, Marites B.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted A chronicle of the Philippine stock exchange's post-devaluation performance (July 11,1997-July 10, 1998)(1998-01) Castro, Vanessa L.; Torres, Rommel F.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted A comparison of socioeconomic determinants that influence justification of physical violence against women in the Philippines in 2013 and 2017(2021-01-18) Carlos, Andrea Bianca E.; Pelejo, Bianca L.; Alburo, Florian A.This study examines which socioeconomic factors of both women and their partners affect their justification of physical violence against women in the Philippines in 2013 and 2017. Data from the 2013 and 2017 National Health Demographic Surveys were collected and respondents consist of never-married and ever-married women. In the survey, the female respondents were asked the question whether or not they justify acts of physical violence based on specific scenarios and their experience of violence committed by anyone and by their current or former partners. Answers were quantified with “yes” or “no”. Multiple linear regression models were used to analyze the relevance of the respondent’s age, partner’s age, respondent’s educational attainment, partner’s educational attainment, respondent’s religion, and their combined wealth index on the respondent’s justification of physical violence against women. The models demonstrated that factors associated with the respondent’s education, religious associations, and wealth index have a bearing on their justification of domestic abuse for both 2013 and 2017. The analysis suggests that women who have received a higher level of education are less likely to excuse violent acts of their partners. The same observation was made for respondents who belong to a higher wealth index. However, findings suggest that respondents who religiously identify as Roman Catholic or Islam have tendencies of providing rationale for physical violence against women.Item Restricted A project evaluation on the comprehensive agrarian reform program implementation using a logarithmic multivariate regression analysis(2021-01-20) Porciuncula, Angelo Joaquin V.; Tecson, Patrick Gregory V.; Alburo, Florian A.Land and agrarian reform are done to remove hindrances to economic and social progress based on land ownership and tenure (Cox et. al., 2003). According to Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) data as of June 2020, 32 years since land reform started, 90.49% of the land has been distributed to its scope of around 5.4 million hectares. A multitude of factors come into play when looking at the totality of land reform. Our Logarithmic Multivariate Regression model looks into levels of inequality, production, and judicial cases and their relationship towards the completion of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The study used a 21-year long dataset from 1997-2018, which includes the Gini Coefficient, total Agrarian Law Implementation (ALI) Caseload Cases per year, and total production of all crops. Our model shows significant relationships among all the variables, and the model explains 98.81% of the variation as seen in the adjusted R2 . It is observed that there is a negative relationship between the Gini Coefficient of the country and the CARP completion rate, while Production and the caseload of ALI cases show a positive relationship. Unsurprisingly, inequality has the greatest magnitude over the other determinants. Given these results, policies for the further completion of land reform can tackle the efficiency and funding of our courts, and the creation of social services to alleviate the gap can finally end the 32-year wait of our farmer-folk for land.Item Restricted A review of European community foreign direct investment in the Philippines: 1980-1996(1999-03) Alingod, Ma. Rea C.; Vela, Maria Donna D.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted A review of foreign trade policies during Marcos' first term as Philippine president(1985-01) Garcia, Algerico R.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted A study of manufactured export performance and its relation to Philippine economic growth: 1949-1975(1978-03) Ebriega, Christabelle P.; Sibug, Carmen R.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted A study on labor absorption in Philippine agriculture, 1986-1996(1998-01) Celones, Marinette Ann B.; Santos, Bingle D.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted A study on trade diversification as a stabilizing mechanism for Philippine exports(1978-12) Barcelona, Ricardo G.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted An economic analysis of kidnap for ransom in the Philippines(1999-03) Perez, Angelie Fiel L.; Ramos, Cherrie F.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted An economic analysis of supply of and demand for rice in Nepal(1980-10) Amatya, Ramesh N.; Alburo, Florian A.This study attempts to add to the understanding of the rice situation at the regional (hill and mountain, and Tarai) and national levels in Nepal. The analysis is primarily based on past trends in consumption, production, prices, procurement and distribution and on estimated supply and demand functions for rice. Between 1967/68 and 1978/79 the production of rice increased at an annual rate of 0.9% whereas the consumption of rice has been increasing at 1.13% per year mainly due to population growth. Area expansion was the more important factor contributing to rice output increase whereas yield accounted for 31% of the growth in output. Yields grew at 0.63% per year for Nepal. Yields in Tarai grew at 0.9% per year whereas yields declined in the hill and mountain regions at 1.16% per year. Low growth rates of yield were due to slow growth in inputs used, availability of irrigated land, and a declining real rice price which is attributed to the government's frequent interference in the market. Price elasticities of rice hectarage are +0.46, +0.10 and +0.13 for the hill and mountain regions, Tarai, and Nepal respectively. Thus, price increases for rice do motivate farmers to plant more rice and thus stimulate rice production. Irrigation is also an important factor in increasing rice hectarage and production. Farmers in the hill and mountain regions are more responsive to irrigation than farmers in Tarai. Relative rice price elasticities of consumption are -.35, -.29 and -.30 for the hill and mountain regions, Tarai, and Nepal respectively. Changes in the relative price of rice significantly affect the demand for rice resulting in the substitution of wheat and maize for rice. Income elasticities of rice demand are +.53, +.20 and +.32 for the hill and mountain regions, Tarai and Nepal, suggesting that consumers in the hill and mountain regions spend higher proportions of their additional income for rice. Rice output is Projected to grow by 1.52% per annum whereas the demand for rice is projected to increase by 2.52% per annum. If those trends prevail Nepal is expected to be an importer of rice before the year 1989-90. However, it is still possible to stimulate rice production in order to meet the growing demand by providing a minimum guaranteed price to rice producers increasing irrigated land and raising the level of other inputs as well as providing production loans. Also, the demand for rice can be curtailed to some extent by changing its price relative to that of wheat and maize, resulting in the substitution of wheat and maize for rice.Item Restricted An inter-industry study of primary product exports of the Philippines(1982-04) Gavino, Susana N.; Alburo, Florian A.This paper is a study of the effects on economic activity of an increase in demand for primary product exports of the Philippines. It aims to evaluate the backward linkage-output and employment effects derived from exporting products in the un- processed or partly processed state compared with the alternative products in which exports are processed or in manufactured form. Direct and indirect backward linkage-output and employment effects arising from given changes in demand for said exports are estimated and analyzed through input-output analysis. Estimation and analysis of results show that for backward linkage-output effects greater benefits would be derived if export expansion strategies will be directed to manufacture of food, beverages, and tobacco, manufacture of non-metallic mineral products, forestry and logging, and metallic mining. Thus, it is suggested that these industries be the focus of export promotion policies that aim to increase output not only in the export industries concerned but also in the other producing sectors. In the case of employment effects, results show that labor-intensive industries, e.g. agricultural crops production, production of livestock, poultry and other animals, fishery, manufacture of wood and wood products, including furnitures and fixtures, manufacture of non-metallic mineral products, n.e.s., and manufacture of fabricated metal products, machinery and equipment, have relatively larger employment effects than their corresponding less labor-intensive sectors. Consequently, fiscal policies biased towards industries with large employment effects should concentrate on the above-mentioned labor-intensive industries.Item Restricted Analysis of shifts of Filipino labour migration from middle east to Asia(2002-10) Alegre, Sigrid E.; Capule, Julie Ann C.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted ASEAN trade in manufactures: a study in complementarity, special country bias, and trade intensity(1986-05) Gamolo, Nerio D.; Alburo, Florian A.This paper analyzes trade intensity in manufacturers within ASEAN. Two countries trade more or less intensively with each other than they do with the rest of the world because of the degree of complementarity and the degree of special country bias. Complementarity measures the extent to which one country's export pattern matches another country's import pattern more closely than it matches the pattern of world imports. Special country bias has been defined to include the trading partners' geographical proximity and special institutional and historical ties. Complementarity and special country bias together determine the intensity of trade. Results show that ASEAN countries are trading in manufacturers among themselves to a considerable intensity mainly because of a high degree of special country bias. The high degree of special country bias is largely attributed to geographical proximity among individual ASEAN countries. The low degree of complementarity which characterizes intra-ASEAN trade in manufactures shows that ASEAN countries' export patterns do not match their import patterns more closely than they match the pattern of world imports in manufactures.Item Restricted Assessing the impact of international remittances on overseas filipino worker families' expenditure between commodity groups: a panel approach(2020-12) Lamasan, Anton Dominic P.; Guiam, Emmanuel Viktor R.; Alburo, Florian A.Between 2006 and 2009, overseas remittances accounted for 10.41-12.14% of GDP. Given the dependence of many Filipino families on the receipt of such remittances, it is important to look at how this phenomenon affects household spending patterns. Do remittances induce recipient families to spend more on investments like healthcare, education, and housing or should we expect such households to simply increase conspicuous consumption on recreation, tobacco, and alcoholic beverages? This paper examines this question using a panel dataset constructed from the 2006 and 2009 rounds of the merged Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and Labor Force Survey (LFS). Using a modified Working-Leser model, our findings suggest that remittance receipt lowers the household per capita expenditure share of tobacco, alcoholic beverages, and food consumed outside the home while raising the shares of consumer goods, recreation, medical care, and others. This implies that while there is a shift away from some commodity groups considered as non-essential, there is no significant change in household investment attributable to remittances aside from that of medical care.Item Restricted Bangladesh jute in world market: an econometric and policy simulation analysis(1980-07) Ahammed, Chowdhury S.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted Building a financially literate Philippines: a study on the determinants of financial literacy among Filipino adults(2021-02-22) Batara, Joan Marie T.; Formoso, Nicole Danielle T.; Alburo, Florian A.Literacy has grown from a term that defines the ability of reading and writing to concepts that describe “new literacies” specific to subject areas and skills, one of which is financial literacy. Although the body of literature on financial literacy and its determinants has continuously been growing, spanning different focus areas and countries, there is much room for investigation in the Philippine setting. Most research on the determinants of Filipinos’ financial literacy has focused on specific target groups like teachers and university students. Using data from the Financial Inclusion Survey (FIS) 2019 of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas with a sample size of 1,200 Filipino adults, this paper conducts a study on the determinants of financial literacy in the Philippines. Ordinal logistic regression models were used to determine the effects of these factors on financial literacy which was measured by the score of each respondent on the financial literacy questions of the FIS 2019 survey. The results show that all the demographic and socioeconomic variables studied had no significant effect on financial literacy. Meanwhile, all geographic factors namely being of urban residence and residing outside of Metro Manila had negative effects on financial literacy. For financial inclusion variables, only account holding and investment holding show positive effects while both insurance holding and having formal credit are both statistically insignificant. The presence of significance for some variables confirms ideas posited by the Social Learning Theory, the Consumer Socialization Theory, and the concept of Financial Socialization. The findings also confirm an insight from related literature which is that most variables studied in this area of research often affect financial literacy in developed economies more than developing economies such as the Philippines.Item Restricted Color coding scheme: an evaluation of the metropolitan transportation policy(2002-10) Revilla, Rhoda Gay D,; Sandoval, Jeramie Ann A.; Alburo, Florian A.Item Restricted Connections, connections, connections: the weights of presidential endorsements and total expenditures in 2019 Philippine midterm election outcomes(2022-01) Balita, Kyla Gabrielle M.; Cajayon, Mary Joyce Anne V.; Alburo, Florian A.Political campaigns and their successes appear to hinge on various factors, depending on the context. Researchers have conducted studies on the impact of candidates’ family networks, social and celebrity statuses, and genders, among other things, on voter perception in Philippine elections. Given the limited scope of existing literature, this study seeks to assess the weights of two other determinants— endorsements by incumbent government officials, specifically President Rodrigo Duterte and Davao City mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, and campaign expenditures—that possibly contributed to the vote tallies of specific candidates during the 2019 senatorial elections and create a model than can be used to predict candidate vote tallies. Several regression models are employed to gauge such effects. First, a logistic regression is used to produce probability predictions for endorsements and expenditures, as well as certain candidate attributes like sex, incumbency status, and dynastic links. Second, a multiple regression model including all variables is generated and assessed in terms of its fit to the data. Lastly, linear regressions are executed to check for robustness. The results show endorsements to be significant in predicting winning probabilities, and both endorsements and expenditures to be significantly robust in determining raw votes.Item Restricted Determinants of hectarage accumulation of homestead grant in Palawan Province 1975(1979-06) Tiwari, Padma Nath; Alburo, Florian A.