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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 Philippines, being prone to natural calamities and vulnerable to economic fluctuations, has much to accomplish in terms of improving its populati..

This Policy Note analyzes the taxes imposed by the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Act and their impact on the liberalization thrust..

A PIDS study found that men are more likely than women to have SSS/GSIS and PhilHealth especially among workers in the rural areas. Men in the servic..

To reduce the risks and vulnerability to sudden income shocks faced by households due to natural calamities, disability, illnesses, and other causes, ..

In a developing country such as the Philippines, social protection has been a consistent priority of government to redistribute income to the poor, ma..

This issue of the Development Research News (DRN) revisits the country’s social protection programs and provides strategies to further improve their..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Southern Luzon State University (SLSU) cosponsored a multistakeholder forum titled "Ag..

A PIDS study says the government’s social health insurance and conditional cash transfer program were able to induce greater hospital visits for..

Poor Filipino children under the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) and health care programs now have better acess to health care, the..

Filipino children from poor households who are part of the government’s health insurance program have increased access to health care, both for ..

THE design of crop insurance policies is geared towards reducing the risk to farm lenders rather than protecting farmers from risk, the Philippine Ins..

The Agribusiness Venture Arrangements (AVAs) and Sugarcane Block Farming (SBF), two government initiatives aimed at boosting farm productivity and inc..

Preparing for a disaster is one thing, but recovering from a disaster is another.  While much has been done to boost disaster preparedness in th..

Preparing for a disaster is one thing, but recovering from a disaster is another. While much has been done to boost disaster preparedness in the coun..