Government - Matches

The 2016–2017 Economic Policy Monitor highlights the fiscal design aspect of the Philippines' proposed shift to a federal system of government. It p..

Utilizing the data from the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) study of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies and the Department of the Interior and..

This paper surveys literature on Philippine decentralization to gather insights as well as distill facts emerging from the evidence on local governmen..

The paper highlights the importance of the design of the fiscal features of the federal system of government in ensuring that potential benefits from ..

If it ain’t broke, why fix it? This is a question some pundits posed when President Duterte started tinkering with the Constitution of the Repub..

IF THE push for federalism is at core a variant of decentralization, the nation's experience with the Local Government Code that passed in 1991 is an ..

Today I adopt as my column the article written by my US-based daughter Ivy Lopez Cabaltica, a lawyer, on the high cost of medicines in the Philippines..

Following Monday's barangay and SK elections, the business sector is hoping for the barangays' support in spurring economic development, being the sma..

The second semester issue of the Philippine Journal of Development features articles on Typhoon Ondoy and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreemen..

This paper assesses the alignment of the Philippine Government Procurement Reform Act (GPRA) with respect to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agree..

Despite the significant decrease in prices of medicines as the share of generic medicines substantially grew over the years, demand for medicines amon..

“There is no single best expenditure assignment in a federal setup. The same is true with tax assignment,” said Philippine Institute for D..

Despite the significant decrease in prices of medicines as the share of generic medicines substantially grew over the years, demand for medicines amon..

One way to reduce medicine costs is to increase competition among manufacturers in the domestic market, said Gilberto Llanto and Ramon Clarete, presid..

Increasing competition among manufacturers in the domestic market is one way to reduce the costs of medicine in the Philippines, state think tank Phil..