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The United States is the top trading partner of the Philippines and also the top destination of highly skilled and professional Filipino workers. This..

This paper demonstrates how family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this l..

The term tropical cyclone is called hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean, cyclone over the Indian Ocean and typhoon over the Pacific Ocean which includes..

This article examines the politico-strategic motivations of the Bush Administration’s efforts to foster free trade agreements (FTAs) to a number of ..

The paper employs an integrated CGE-microsimulation approach to analyze the possible effects of the Philippine-Japan bilateral agreements on unemploym..

The paper aims to identify industry and macrolevel factors that affect competitiveness of selected sectors upon the implementation of the JPEPA. Prior..

The design of rules of origin (ROO) in preferential trade agreements is critical because to the extent that it determines which products are eligible ..

The paper provides a background for services trade negotiations with Japan. It summarizes various discussions on international trade in services, the ..

The paper looks at firm-level factors that affect Philippine exports to Japan with the main objective of recommending provisions for the proposed Japa..

The quantitative restriction (QR) on rice will last until the end of 2004. The paper employs a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze t..

What may happen if the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice, which puts a limit to the volume of rice imports entering the country, is removed by the..

This paper aims to showcase the experience of the Magat watershed in the implementation of the watershed management approach. Magat watershed was decl..

This book presents in broad strokes a chronicle of infrastructure development in the Philippines in the last 25 years. It covers the infrastructure ex..

The paper focuses on the socioeconomic development experience of Lipa in its journey to being an emerging city. Specifically, it presents the urbaniza..

Established in 1977, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has been an important research resource in the country. It has served to ..