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The Philippines needs to increase government spending for health as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) to help attain inclusive growth, acc..

A top official of the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) has underscored the urgent need to address the gap between the richest and th..

September of every year was declared as Development Policy Research Month (DPRM) by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 247 signed on September 2..

In a PIDS policy note titled “Urgent: A road map for agro-industrial development in the Philippines,” authors Roehlano Briones and Ivory Myka Gala..

Between 1974 and 2004, the average labor productivity growth in the Philippine manufacturing industry stood at 0.29 percent, lower than Indonesia`s 4...

In a statement released by state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Asian Development Bank (ADB) Independent Evalua..

The country`s economy has developed a resilience to the impact of natural disasters but remains vulnerable to global financial shocks, said speakers a..

State think-tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies joins Bangkok-based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Paci..

Development goals and needs of the manufacturing, chemicals, and copper industries were unveiled on Tuesday, the first three of 30 industry roadmaps d..

CHEd`s ongoing program for public higher education reform rests on the tacit and questionable premise that the required flexibility already exists in ..

FIRES that occurred across the nation caused more casualties in the past three years compared to those from 2005 to 2009, according to a discussion pa..

Extending the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps beyond five years for current beneficiaries is needed to allow the poor to “outgrow” the ..

THE COUNTRY`S competition policies must be reformed for fairness, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said in a press release on S..

The pork stays and it’s a whopping P27 billion in the Aquino administration’s proposed P2.268-trillion national budget for next year. Unfazed by t..

Listening to our President’s one hour and some State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, I realized that there were a lot of things that I was..