Protection - Matches

Due to the increase in prices of basic agricultural commodities in 1995, food price stability and food security have again emerged as a major policy c..

Despite commitments to the WTO and the AFTA, many agricultural commodities continue to enjoy protection in the form of tariffs and quotas. Still, the ..

Assessment of trade reforms in the 1990s suggests achievement of considerable progress in tariff simplification and improvement in international compe..

Due to the increase in prices of basic agricultural commodities in 1995, food price stability and food security have again emerged as a major policy c..

This paper analyzes the changes in the Philippine rice economy during the past three and a half decades and evaluates the policy options in light of t..

Despite implementation of structural adjustment programs, the agriculture sector has been continuously exhibiting a dismal performance. This paper ana..

Developing countries should lobby vigorously against labor and environmental standards being put on the WTO’s agenda. This short article expl..

The era of protectionism is gone. This is the message that the author wants to get across the readers. It is high time that Filipino businessme..

This study aims to evaluate the effects of the Trade Reform Program on the performance and competitiveness of the Philippine agricultural machinery in..

This study analyzes the effects of the trade policy reform on the structure, performance and competitiveness of the appliance industry. It also examin..

This study analyzes the effect of the interaction between domestic indirect taxes and tariff system to the market of particular goods. Computation of ..

Domestic tax system restructuring is viewed by many sectors as an important complement to the tariff reform programs. In this light, the study analyze..

While the Tariff Reform Program offers efficiency in resource allocation, it entails short-run costs. To understand what are these costs, this paper e..

As an input to the measurement of the Tariff Reform Program impact, this paper estimates two calculations of effective protection rate: the 1979 and 1..

Using two sets of estimates for effective protection rate and domestic resource costs for1980, 1982 and 1984, it has been found out that the negative ..