Economic - Matches

The study aimed at determining the effects of global economic liberalization on manufacturing industries in Muslim areas in the Philippines. A total o..

What does 2005 hold for Filipinos? As always, PIDS Senior Research Fellow Dr. Josef Yap provides another forecast for 2005 in this issue. He talks abo..

With the Philippines and Japan eyeing specific objectives for their respective long-term development goals, the proposed Japan-Philippines Economic Pa..

This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences and family planning practice in the Philippines using the series of nationally r..

With the recent proliferation of regional and bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) not only involving East Asian countries but others around the wor..

As trade consultations between the Philippines and the US continue, in the hope of cementing a possible free trade agreement (FTA), questions are stil..

The past two decades have seen the growing financial liberalization and integration of the countries in the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the wo..

This article examines the politico-strategic motivations of the Bush Administration’s efforts to foster free trade agreements (FTAs) to a number of ..

This paper extends the analysis on microfinance and poverty from the household perspective by focusing on the role of other economically active househ..

The paper aims to identify industry and macrolevel factors that affect competitiveness of selected sectors upon the implementation of the JPEPA. Prior..

The design of rules of origin (ROO) in preferential trade agreements is critical because to the extent that it determines which products are eligible ..

The paper provides a background for services trade negotiations with Japan. It summarizes various discussions on international trade in services, the ..

The paper looks at firm-level factors that affect Philippine exports to Japan with the main objective of recommending provisions for the proposed Japa..

Regional economic integration in East Asia has gained momentum in the aftermath of the 1997 financial crisis and the escalation of international terro..

The paper discusses the ASEAN + 3 integration in the context of the literature on hub-and-spoke regionalism. It argues that, provided proper rules of ..