B - Matches

Given the present crisis proportion of the Philippines' fiscal position, this Policy Notes outlines the major areas of reform that need to be acted up..

How to frame efficient rural finance policies that would become potent tools for development remains as a challenge to policymakers. Over the past two..

Going by the statements of the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan’s top priority with regards to regional and bilateral economic partnerships ..

The theme of this year's Annual Budget Analysis Series is "Deficit in revenues leading to a deficit in services," reflective of the two studies contai..

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..

In this article, the author outlines the coverage and structure of the Philippines' value-added tax (VAT) on goods and services and discusses the prob..

Competitiveness is technically a firm level concept. However, it is oftentimes extended to the national level--the idea of a country's 'international ..

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..

Citing cases in various Southeast Asian uplands but focusing on a specific Philippine upland illustration in Bukidnon in Southern Philippines, this fe..

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 ..

In the Philippines, one major problem is the continuous rise of unemployment. This article which is a condensed version of Dr. Gerardo Sicat's paper w..

Tariff reform, particularly tariff reduction, is one of the major economic reforms implemented in the last one and half decades in the Philippines. Th..

East Asia has been caught with regionalism in recent years. There has been a proliferation of bilateral and regional trading arrangement initiatives a..

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