Philippines - Matches

The climate of the Philippines is highly influenced by the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). El Nino is associated with an increased chance of drie..

The papers in this special issue come from the project "Bridging the gap between seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) and agricultural decisionmakers in ..

It is ironic how the Philippines, being basically an agricultural country, is one of the top importers of rice in the world. This country is so blesse..

Philippine cities provide the highest levels of service and living standards in the country. Much of what happens to the country in terms of productio..

This paper discusses public and private institutions that were established in the Philippines to provide services to Filipino international migrant wo..

The purpose of the paper was to summarize studies identifying the causes and effects of Philippine international labor migration and remittances and t..

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

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 ..