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Despite rapid economic growth in the past years, poverty still persists in the Philippines. Investing in development programs such as the Pantawid Pam..

Economists from the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the University of the Philippines (UP) took turns discussing techniques in..

Impact evaluation in the Philippines is getting a boost with the government, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation or 3ie, and the Asian ..

Two top officials of the Aquino administration on Wednesday (Sept. 3, 2014) backed efforts to integrate evaluation practices into development programs..

Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan will open Making Impact Evaluation Matter, a large international conference on the increasingly inf..

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..