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Development practitioners and advocates are gathering in Manila this week for the first-ever international meet on impact evaluation in Asia. The Phil..

The automotive industry is expected to yield 300,000 jobs under a new industrial policy that seeks to revive the manufacturing sector, an official bar..

The Commission on Higher Education should enforce "more vigorously" its policy of closing existing programs of state colleges and universities (SUCs) ..

Large discrepancies in the commercial price of fertilizers and the sub-optimal application of fertilizer of farmers are major challenges that threaten..

Philippine graduate education system is critical to serve the country's development goals. This was stressed in a research paper published by state th..

A `technology-explicit` development agenda is needed to increase productivity and foster inclusive growth, according to one of the country`s top scien..

The ASEAN Economic Integration (AEC) offers immense business opportunities that both the government and the private sector must exploit to fully benef..

A competition policy for the rice and passenger transport sector is needed to encourage innovation and prevent cartels. This was stressed in a natio..

The Philippine services sector needs an articulated and comprehensive national strategy to maximize its potentials as a growth engine for the economy...

The Philippines has vast potentials to be the heart of services trade in Asia Pacific. A study authored by Dr. Ramonette Serafica, research consultan..

Recovery in the European Union (EU) will boost the Philippine economy given strong trade and investment relations between the two. In a recent forum ..

Blaming rice cartels for price manipulation cannot be considered a definitive explanation of last year's rice price hike. Sharp drop in imports is a m..

Various digital data by-products from electronic devices, social media, search engines, sensors, and tracking devices (including climate sensors and g..

A recent study of state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Department of Health (DOH) reveals that the leading cau..

It has been twenty-five years since the passage of the Generic Drugs Act and five years since the Cheaper Medicines Act, but majority of Filipinos, pa..