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Michael Ralph Abrigo, a senior research fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), was recently recognized by the National Aca..

This paper surveys literature on Philippine decentralization to gather insights as well as distill facts emerging from the evidence on local governmen..

The paper highlights the importance of the design of the fiscal features of the federal system of government in ensuring that potential benefits from ..

Since the beginning of the Duterte administration, federalism has been espoused as an alternative to the centralized system of governance in the Phili..

If it ain’t broke, why fix it? This is a question some pundits posed when President Duterte started tinkering with the Constitution of the Repub..

IF THE push for federalism is at core a variant of decentralization, the nation's experience with the Local Government Code that passed in 1991 is an ..

The heads of the Philippines' premier schools of government and development management expressed support to the 13 senators who supported the ban on p..

At the Senate hearing last week on the proposed anti-political dynasty law called by Sen. Francis Pangilinan, chair of the Senate committee on constit..

To make the anti-political dynasty more acceptable to politicians,  experts suggested Thursday to a Senate committee to prohibit only fat dynasti..

Having family members in office all at the same time could be prohibited, while having family members serving one after another could be allowed. ..

Political science experts argued that a shift to federalism is not the key to addressing the existence of "fat" political dynasties, or political clan..

I’m glad state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has moved into the needed objective and research-based analysis of..

MERELY allowing regions to hold on to their income “may not be enough to undo the huge imbalance in economic and human development” across..

During the day, cranes atop unfinished skyscrapers cast long shadows over the concrete jungle that is Bonifacio Global City (BGC). By nightfall, they ..

The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) remains confident that the shift to a federal form of government will not derail the Duterte ad..