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The Philippine Institute for Development Studies and the World Bank is jointly sponsoring a roundtable discussion (RTD) on Infrastructure as Building ..

Policymakers in the Philippines should realize that free trade agreements (FTAs) are neither necessary nor sufficient for economic growth. This was..

The lack of strong competition in the Philippines is discouraging the growth of new businesses and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country...

On the occasion of the celebration of the 3rd Development Policy Research Month (DPRM), the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC), in partnership ..

There is an urgent need to improve the countrys educational system if the Philippines were to maintain its present lead in service exports. According..

To increase awareness of the general public on the importance of policy research in the policy formulation, planning and decisionmaking process, the m..

The governments of Australia and the Philippines have started the implementation of a project that focuses on the use of seasonal climate forecasts (S..

The government think tank, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), has named Josef T. Yap as president of the Institute effective April ..

There is a water crisis, which is aggravated by a flawed governance of water resources. Thus argue researchers from the Philippine Institute for Dev..

In support of the International Year of Rice, this year’s celebration of the Development Policy Research Month in September will focus on the impor..

Rice is not only food but also art and culture to the Asian peoples, in particular, the Filipinos, stressed noted scientist and former president of th..

From tall with drooping leaves to short or semi-dwarf with straight leaves this basically describes the evolution in the characteristics of the diffe..

Your work does not end in the publication of a research paper; rather, it is just the beginning, was how Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo began his ..

While there is a general recognition by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) that there is indeed a need to adopt the watershed ..

In light of a looming water shortage, a study conducted by a team of researchers from the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), UP Syst..