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Education is highly regarded as a tool for economic security both on a personal level and for the country. It is a salient feature in attaining compet..
Development Research News

ASEAN transport cooperation is a key issue in the preparation for an ASEAN Economic Community in 2015. Transport cooperation requires member countries..
Discussion Papers

Openness to foreign labor reflects Singapore`s overall open economic policies and lack of xenophobia as well as a tight labor market as a result of ro..
Policy Notes

For economic upgrading toward a knowledge-based economy, Singapore requires a growing pool of professionals and skilled workers, innovators, and entre..
Policy Notes

Cross-national labor inflow to Malaysia became prominent in the 1970s. This largely consists of low-skilled economic migrants and refugees, some of wh..
Policy Notes

The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint targets an ASEAN single market in 2015. This is an ambitious reform agenda that seeks to ensure the free flow o..
Discussion Papers

For the 9th commemoration of the Development Policy Research Month (DPRM), the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) chose the theme "Ba..
Development Research News

In the early 1970s, Malaysia began to be inundated by foreign workers, all of whom were irregular migrants. A decade later their uncontrolled entry le..
Discussion Papers

The Philippines is still primarily an agricultural country. Aside from the agriculture sector`s crucial role in ensuring food security for the Filipin..
Development Research News

Singapore has one of the most open economies in Asia in terms of trade, foreign direct investment inflows, and foreign labor inflows. By 2010, citizen..
Discussion Papers

The study examines the characteristics, root causes, and challenges of irregular migration from Cambodia and then discusses the regulatory approaches ..
Discussion Papers

In current practice in all countries, subaggregate chained volume measures (CVMs) are not weighted and, thus, not additive. However, weights are neces..
Discussion Papers

In view of the long-standing issues and concerns that beset the Philippine system of higher education, the study attempts to evaluate the performance ..
Discussion Papers

Research and development (R&D) is an important resource for sustained economic growth. New knowledge created by a firm has spillover effects that impr..
Discussion Papers

Statistics on the distribution of ODA loans show that the local government sector is the smallest direct recipient of this funding source. While it ha..
Discussion Papers
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