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The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) received the 2023 Outstanding Book/Monograph (OBM) Award from the National Academy of Science ..

State think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) launched its newest book focusing on the country’s response to the COVID-19 pan..

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic hit the Philippine economy and society unprecedentedly. To protect the people, the government had to ..

Tariffication of quantitative restrictions on rice imports was a key policy reform of the Duterte administration. This study reviews recent trends in ..

Poverty vulnerability has been particularly recognized in the wake of the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that is likely to yield declines ..

This paper defines the middle-income class as those whose per capita incomes are within two- and twelve- times the (official) poverty line. Descriptiv..

The middle class plays a critical role in the development of a country. It is not only expected to create employment as business start-ups but also to..

Trade liberalization--particularly tariff reduction, which is the focus of this paper--triggers changes in both sectoral price ratios and domestic-for..

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..

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

In the past one and a half decades, the Philippine government pursued major economic policy reforms. One of the key focused areas is the trade sector...

This paper examines the effects of the reduction in tariff rates in the Philippines from 1994 to 2000 on unemployment, distribution and poverty using ..

Who benefits from the tariff reforms launched by the Philippine government from 1994-2000? On the basis of the results of his simulation runs, the aut..

Acceleration of economic growth and development, alleviation of poverty and the promotion of greater equity in Philippine society have been the major ..

Macroeconometric models may have lost its fame in the past decade; nevertheless it has remained useful in guiding policy decisions and forecasting. Th..