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The Philippines has made a major push toward development of biofuel, enacting biofuels mandates and subsidies by the Biofuels Law. To maintain food se..

In this paper, results of the 2009 Survey of Innovation Activities are described and discussed. The term innovation, traditionally associated with res..

What are the factors that make some firms innovate while others do not? Does location matter? Or firm size? How about the presence of more female work..

What are the factors that contribute to the nonparticipation of children in school? Who are the ones accountable to this complicating issue? This Note..

Despite the various efforts to improve the Philippines` education system, why does this country still have low participation rates in education? What ..

The performance of the Philippine automotive industry has steadily improved after the Asian crisis. However, relative to the performance of the automo..

Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover effects--fellow migrants share inf..

Aggregate labor productivity (ALP) growth--i.e., growth of output per unit of labor--may be decomposed into additive contributions due to within-secto..

The 2011 and 2012 fiscal program appears to score high in terms of contributing to the speed of fiscal consolidation despite limited gains in revenue ..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), being true to its mandate of conducting policy research in aid of planning and policymaking, ..

Water is one of the basic necessities in life, along with food and shelter. It must be clean, safe, and adequate. However, the number of people living..

What are the problems that the mining sector faces today? Can value addition help in alleviating some of these problems? Does this sector have other p..

Globalization highlights the need for public sector reform, good governance, and state capacity building. Thus, this volume highlights the key develop..

With the political noise brought about by the upcoming national elections as well as the prospects of a global economic recovery as backdrop, what cou..

Ranking provinces in terms of human development, which provinces fared well and which fared badly across time in each of the components of the human d..