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This first issue of the Development Research News (DRN) for 2020 puts light on some key challenges in the Philippine education sector. The banner stor..

As several countries have reduced tariff rates, other forms of regulatory measures that impact on trade have proliferated. These regulations, collecti..

The Philippines is slowly ageing. In a little over a decade, the country’s elderly will comprise at least 7 percent of the total population. This ri..

The study analyzes the efficiency implications of fiscal decentralization using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It uses health expenditure (in per..

This study continues previous work on estimating the vulnerability level of households to income poverty using a modified probit model based on income..

In 2013, amid celebrations over reaching investment grade status for the Philippines under the Aquino administration, I wrote an article questioning w..

Housework, also called unpaid work or nonmarket work, is performed across countries and societies to enhance the well-being of individuals in househol..

The Department of Education (DepEd) is the biggest agency in the Philippine bureaucracy to implement the performance-based bonus (PBB) scheme. This Po..

Typhoons, pests, and other natural calamities cause the country, particularly the agricultural sector, significant damages. For instance, Typhoons Yol..

This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression di..

The Philippine government has adopted a performance-based incentive system (PBIS) for employees in the executive department to motivate higher perform..

In 1993, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) published a report containing recommendations that recognized the economic interdependence and e..

This research assesses the sophistication content of the country's current export portfolio and identifies products that result in a more diversified ..

Health human resource (HHR) is critical in the delivery of health care services. However, the available evidences on their geographic distribution and..

Free trade agreements (FTAs) and regional trade agreements (RTAs), as a national policy, have proliferated in the recent decades as countries perceive..