B - Matches

Economic openness has been generally viewed as beneficial whether in terms of welfare or efficiency gains. While literature has incorporated that trad..

Recognizing the importance of an outward-oriented policy approach, countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines have liberalize..

Even with lapses in its implementation during the 1980s, trade reform has been continuously brought to the fore of structural adjustment program. It h..

Dr. Josef Yap heralds the good signs in 1993 not just in Asia but in the Philippines as well. However, optimism should be tempered with caution..

Opportunities knock only once, so the saying goes. The GATT has been on our doorstep for quite a long time. What do we do about it? The authors..

To evaluate the effectiveness of approaches to improve policies toward the development of small and medium enterprises, this article assesses the effi..

Analysis of micro-level data confirms the effects of differential technical change on both the demand and the supply side of rural labor markets. Tech..

Housing developments have been hampered by exorbitantly priced land specifically in the cities. The 1991 housing survey show that Metro Manila househo..

The Philippines has been one among the few that still adheres to the home consumption valuation (HCV), a system that, according to many importers, res..

Early 1980s has seen series of reforms in the Philippine financial system having improved financial intermediation as the general objective. This pape..

From a theoretical standpoint, the question has to be asked whether or not the census should retain its present definition of urban areas. There is a ..

In capital-starved nations, the role of foreign assistance to fund development programs and projects is considered critical to the success of t..

The reports included in this second issue of the Economic Outlook Series have been presented at the PIDS annual roundtable discussion. The papers con..

Credit is important because economic agents in the agriculture sector who are constrained by liquidity problems may produce sub-optimal outputs. This ..