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Improving financial literacy and broadening access to financial institutions like banks and insurance companies, especially in the rural areas, are ke..

The government’s shift to a new industrial policy has contributed to the continuous economic growth of the country, according to a study publish..

Last year marked the 25th year of the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA). Enacted in 1992, the UDHA brought the hope of realizing a socially jus..

The government is urged to re duce the share of public funds al located for the reconstruction of private properties damaged in natural disasters and..

A PIDS study finds only 13 percent of adults in Metro Manila, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao have risk-protection cover. Many Filipinos shy away from fo..

USING public funds to finance the repair of housing in disaster-affected areas could jeopardize funding for other public goods, according to a paper r..

In the last decade, natural disasters in the Philippines have had recorded postdisaster reconstruction needs of at least PHP 32 billion. If not effect..

This Policy Note examines the Budget Reform Bill using two perspectives, namely, the problem-solving perspective and the perspective of international ..

Making higher education more accessible for the poor serves the equity objective. Until today, the main policy tool to achieve this objective is fundi..

The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster launched the bot..

The adoption of a federal form of government was a key campaign promise of President Rodrigo Duterte, a thrust reiterated in his first State of the Na..

The national government is a “poor creditor” for smallholder farmers, according to a study released by state-owned think tank Philippine I..

TO sustain its fast-paced economic growth this year, the government must throw in efforts to improve the country’s productivity that had seen st..

The Philippines demonstrated significant economic growth—and is still gaining momentum—in recent years. This was after being tagged as the ‘sick..

The government is considering increasing the number of beneficiaries under the  conditional cash transfer or Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program ..