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State think tank Philippine Institute of Development Studies ranked among the best in the world in a report published by the University of Pennsylvani..

The government asked the Philippine Institute of Development Studies to conduct a feasibility study on a free trade agreement with Taiwan. Ant..

The Philippines is conducting a feasibility study for a bilateral free trade agreement with Taiwan that would allow the export of farm products to the..

A full-blown free trade agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and Taiwan is being explored abandoning an earlier proposal to create a special econom..

The Philippines and Taiwan are negotiating for an economic partnership agreement that would establish a free trade area between the two countries, Ama..

A research fellow at the Tokyo-based Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) called for the coordination in exchange rates among the Association of S..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) stressed the need for immediate and long-term solutions regarding Mindanao’s power constrain..

The government`s flagship program for agriculture is the Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP), which aims at 100 percent rice self-sufficiency this..

According to a study conducted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), productivity growth was behind the `spectacular` economic p..

In its quest for industrialization, the postwar Philippine economy adopted a complex array of protective policies through high tariffs, quantitative r..

Farmers said rice smuggling could imperil President Aquino’s rice self-sufficiency goal this year if this is not stopped. According to Abono Party-L..

The time has come for us to ask from and of them the kind of results we had expected from the first year but willingly delayed demanding—because of ..

THE Philippines should continue adopting an inclusive growth economic policy to increase its productivity and catch up with Asian neighbors that enjo..

President Benigno Aquino III declared 2013 the National Year of Rice to intensify the campaign to achieve rice self-sufficiency this year, despite war..

A government think tank said the country should no longer seek to extend the protectionist policy on rice through the quantitative restriction sche..