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Financing of education in the Philippines is mainly by the government (public) and by households (private), and since the 1990s there has been a shift..

This paper describes the revised national level estimates of the 2007 Philippines NTA. The differences between the previous and the revised 2007 Phili..

Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical Coordination Board. Poverty in..

The role of education in economic development is widely acknowledged. It increases the innovative capacity of an economy and facilitates the diffusion..

This Policy Note assesses whether the rice self-sufficiency target can be attained and sustained at reasonable cost. The assessment is based on two ap..

One of the major challenges in the Philippine health sector is to secure adequacy of appropriate health facilities. To address this problem, the Healt..

This study examines the performance of the National Food Authority (NFA) with respect to its function of price stability and implications for public f..

This study attempts to measure subsidies to agricultural credit in recent years and provides policy implications. It finds that credit policy has evol..

The long experience of deploying large numbers of workers has earned accolade for the Philippines as a global model for managing the deployment of wor..

Cognizant of the country`s commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly regarding universal primary education (UPE), to..

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint states the plan of ASEAN countries to unify into a single market and production base. A priority focus fo..

The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint targets an ASEAN single market in 2015. This is an ambitious reform agenda that seeks to ensure the free flow o..

The Mindanao electric power problem, which led to a crisis situation in summer 2012, is primarily due to inadequate baseload capacity and unbalanced g..

Since the global financial crisis in 2008/09 there has been heightened concern about the resilience of banking systems in Southeast Asia. This paper p..

This paper reports on the results of the review of the two major scholarship programs of TESDA, namely: (a) the Training for Work Scholarship Program ..