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Unintended consequences : the folly of uncritical thinking / edited by Vicente B. Paqueo, Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr., Gilberto M. Llanto. - Quezon City : Philippine Institute for Development Studies, ©2017. - xxx, 178 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Synthesis of selected case studies of Philippine policies and programs / Vicente B. Paqueo [and three others] -- Cargo truck ban, bad timing, faulty analysis, policy failure / Gilberto M. Llanto -- The impact of legal minimum wages on employment, income, and poverty incidence in the Philippines / Vicente B. Paqueo, Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr., and Leonardo A. Lanzona, Jr. -- Trading off worker flexibility for job security / Leonardo A. Lanzona, Jr. and Vicente B. Paqueo -- Beware of the "end contractualization!" battle cry / Vicente B. Paqueo and Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr. -- Food (in)security and the price of rice self-sufficiency / Roehlano M. Briones -- Beyond the rent, studying the unintended consequences of housing rent control law in Metro Manila / Marife M. Ballesteros and Tatum P. Ramos -- Planting seeds of self-defeat, effects of unrealistic regulations on the Caraga wood industry and forest conservation / Vicente B. Paqueo and Danilo C. Israel -- Reducing the unintended consequences of open access fishing, lessons from the Zamboanga experience / Danilo C. Israel, Milva Lunod-Carinan, and Vicente B. Paqueo -- Pantawid pamilyang Pilipino program / Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr. and Vicente B. Paqueo -- The irony of RH law critics' opposition to comprehensive sex education / Michael R.M. Abrigo and Vicente B. Paqueo.

ISBN: 9789715640664 (paperback)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social problems -- Philippines.
Reflective learning -- Philippines.
Philippines -- Social policy.
Philippines--Social conditions.

Dewey Class. No.: 361.1599 / Un5811 2017