Philippine - Matches

Looking at the analyses and issues raised on the dismal state of Philippine education, one is confronted with the realization that the issues raised a..

Numerous studies have tried to explain the poor growth performance of the Philippines. This paper critically reviews related literature on constraints..

The main feature in this issue points out the importance of recognizing the right of Filipino indigenous children to be culturally different from the ..

There is another kind of crisis that is equally devastating as the global economic and financial crisis, perhaps even more threatening, with mankinds ..

This note shows that unit labor costs, the most widely used measure of competitiveness, are equivalent to the labor share in output multiplied by a pr..

This paper employs several econometric methods to test the validity of the "export-led growth" hypothesis in three BIMP-EAGA countries, i.e., the Phil..

How poor are participants of development projects in the Philippines? This paper uses the 2002 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey to construct an easy-t..

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In thi..

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberaliza..

The measurement of vulnerability, as in the probability that a household becomes poor, is concomitant to the analysis of poverty. To estimate househol..

This paper reviews the status of fishpen and fishcage culture in Laguna de Bay, with emphasis on its economic importance and the relative severity of ..

This article empirically analyzes the relationship between unemployment rate and inflation rate in the Philippines over the period 1980-2006. The nega..

This paper examines the economy-wide impacts of a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) on the Philippine economy. In particular, it uses an app..

The industry’s lack of competitiveness, absence of economies of scale and a weak supply base are the fundamental issues that must be addressed in or..

Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households’ partic..