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The government should create an agency focused on reforestation alone to build on the success of the National Greening Program (NGP), according to a s..
In the News

Instituted under the Aquino administration in 2011, the National Greening Program (NGP) targets poverty reduction, promotion of food security, and bio..
Policy Notes

Everyone has an opinion on how to solve the terrible traffic plaguing Manila every hour of every day. Many people blamed the behemoth cargo trucks ply..
Discussion Papers

Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s call for a veto of the budget allocation for the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority or Ceza ("Santiago hits P800-M Ceza..
In the News

To better prepare for the upcoming free trade market in 2015, the Philippines needs to attract more investment to be able to modernize international p..
In the News

The Philippines, one of the world’s top rice consumers, may need to import as much as 2 million tons of the grain in 2014 as it looks set to miss se..
In the News

Significant reforms that encourage healthy competition would lead to an improved and more competitive maritime sector in the Philippines, according to..
In the News

Manila: State run think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has urged that the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) be split up. "PPA..
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To illuminate the role of agro-export industry in inclusive growth, this case study on Philippine mango focuses on the role of market structure in the..
Discussion Papers

Within East Asia, the outward-oriented Philippine economy is a latecomer to using free trade agreements (FTAs) as a trade policy instrument and has re..
Philippine Journal of Development

This paper tries to characterize the current situation in the Philippines with respect to the goal of the Aquino administration to be food secure and ..
Discussion Papers

Within the context of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Scorecard mechanism developed by the ASEAN Secretariat to monitor the implementation of the A..
Discussion Papers

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberaliza..
Philippine Journal of Development

The country's archipelagic configuration requires an efficient maritime transport infrastructure composed of ports and shipping for growth and socioec..
Research Paper Series

When the GATT and the WTO effectively managed to bring down world tariffs on goods, free trade could have ideally been close at hand. However, in plac..
Policy Notes
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