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The theme of this year's Annual Budget Analysis Series is "Deficit in revenues leading to a deficit in services," reflective of the two studies contai..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microf..

Early child-bearing and high fertility still persist especially among the poor, despite the more than two decades of family planning program implement..

This paper presents the first attempt at estimating the expenditures on the Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) for 1998 and 2000. It iden..

The paper examines the country's highly complex fee structure of higher educational institutions (HEI) and its changes over time. School fees vary wid..

Why have housing reforms failed to achieve the desired improvements in housing in the Philippines? A review of trends in government housing strategies..

One of the indicators to measure the performance of fisheries R&D institutions is their ability to publish, especially in refereed journals in their a..

To be of continuous and reliable service to poor families with small businesses, microfinance institutions (MFIs) must operate in a sustainable ma..

This study presents an evaluation of the President’s Budget for 2003. First, it shows that the fiscal targets set out in the administration’s Budg..

Despite the long list of policy instruments adopted by the Philippine government through the years to improve the country's housing situation, very li..

To attain productivity growth it is necessary to have proper diagnosis and analysis of the sources and causes of low or stagnant agricultural producti..

This paper has re-examined the role of Land Bank of the Philippines, a government-owned bank, in light of the recent reforms and developments in the P..

Metro Cebu is as popular as Metro Manila. As early as 1980’s, Metro Cebu has been referred to as the principal urban settlement of the Central Visay..

Innovation in credit programs has alleviated poverty. The premise is that credit accessibility translates into productive activities that aid househol..