UCT - Matches

For a country to become more competitive in today's emerging world environment and be able to capture new markets and investments, it has to have effi..

What's in store for us this year? Dr. Josef Yap provides us, in this issue, with yet another forecast for the year. He stresses, as he has done in eac..

Approximately 90 percent of the world's production and consumption of rice occurs in Asia, and regional demand is projected to increase by 70 percent ..

This study analyzes the potential impact of the Philippines-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the Philippine economy in case of the Philippines' dis..

This paper investigates the implications of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in December of 2001 for the Philippines based on an an..

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2004 the International Year of the Rice (IYR). The IYR is a venue to promote improved production and ..

The paper discusses critical land issues in the Philippines and assesses the integration of those issues in the national development agenda and povert..

Early child-bearing and high fertility still persist especially among the poor, despite the more than two decades of family planning program implement..

When the WTO talks in Cancun broke down last September, anti-globalization groups and NGOs around the world rejoiced. However, the author of this Poli..

For millions of Filipino families, poverty is something they have to live with every single day. Some have become resigned to such fate but many conti..

This paper surveys the development of macroeconometric and CGE models in the Philippines during the period 1990-2002, primarily in terms of their stru..

The book shows that the Philippines has achieved modest success in the area of poverty reduction and human development. Life expectancy has gone up, m..

In recent months, growing evidence has shown that there seems to be an apparent trend for backsliding or reversal of the government policy on tariff r..

The paper examines the country's highly complex fee structure of higher educational institutions (HEI) and its changes over time. School fees vary wid..

The paper presents estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) from 1967 to 2000. It was observed that while TFP growth was mostly negative in th..