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Information and communication technology (ICT) services in the country remain one of the most expensive in the Asia-Pacific Region. Worse, Internet sp..

Despite the significant gains in primary education participation rates, learning gaps remain high among primary and secondary level students. Increase..

Despite the increasing contribution of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), particularly in terms of job generation and contribution to gross doemstic..

Inaccuracies in recorded nutrition status such as age, height, and weight measurements of children in public schools are among the major constraints t..

In response to calls to institutionalize the government's conditional cash transfer program or the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), an exper..

The European migrant crisis will not have large, adverse effects on the Philippines, according to a Malta-based economist in a presentation at a semin..

With the onset of prolonged drought brought by the El Nino phenomenon, irrigation also becomes more important for cultivating crops, especially rice. ..

Baguio City, the capital of Benguet Province, was flagged a few years back by a World Wide Fund for Nature study as the most vulnerable Philippine cit..

State think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), in coordination with the Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippine..

State think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), in partnership with the Central Luzon State University (CLSU), will conduct a fo..

Proposals to amend the personal income tax schedule appear to be well-justified. However, these proposals should include measures that will allow gove..

Dr. Alfredo E. Pascual, president of the University of the Philippines (UP), has joined state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies ..

State think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) presented a framework that would help the government in assessing competition iss..

"Evidence-based decisionmaking is perhaps the best way to ensure that regulators are, in the long run, effective. Effective regulation entails making ..

Dr. Dan Steinbock, an economic expert affiliated with the Difference Group, gave a dynamic lecture on the future of global and emerging economies at t..