Development - Matches

Since the passage of the Local Government Code in 1991, what has constituted as a major source of loan financing for local governments is the Municipa..

This paper examines the conduct of exchange rate policy in the Philippines since the early 1980s, paying particular attention to the influence of exch..

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

National innovation system is anchored on the theory that industrial development requires technological capability in industry, and that exploitation ..

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..

Economic growth is determined by how well a country mobilizes its resources to improve productivity in order to increase production of goods and servi..

The arrival of globalization has brought about a lot of challenges for nations to meet. This paper takes a look at the capability of the Philippine st..

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 celebration of the first-ever Development Policy Research Month (DPRM) on a nationwide scale, this issue highlights the development and short histo..

This paper presents the first attempt at estimating the expenditures on the Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) for 1998 and 2000. It iden..

The objective of the paper is to draw technology-related policy lessons for the Philippines by examining Japan's experience in technological innovatio..

Using panel data from about 1,500 farm households and estimating from a logit model, results show that agrarian reform has had a positive impact on fa..

Regional development policy and practice took significant transformations over the last five decades. Its relevance has been challenged in recent year..

This paper attempts to analyze governance systems in Southeast Asia and proposes some policy suggestions that can improve governance practices in the..

Changing leaders, changing styles, changing programs--this in a way sums up why policy reforms somehow get delayed and, at times, derailed often at th..