Services - Matches

Services has taken over the role of agriculture as the Philippine economy's engine of growth. Not only does it contribute significantly to GDP, it als..

The recently signed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is said to represent a "new age free trade area" in that its terms and pr..

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..

This book examines the trends in Philippine banking regulation in the past 25 years. In particular, it notes that the Philippines has followed a polic..

The international education service sector is undoubtedly growing. The movement of students across nations is expected to grow fourfold in the next qu..

The paper is an industry study of the audiovisual services sector, specially the film and television industry in the Philippines. It discusses the imp..

Borrowing today’s parlance, the “in” thing now is health tourism. These days, people are not only looking for cures for their illnesses; they ar..

At the rate that the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector is growing, it may indeed be the next big thing in this country. This was surmised by t..

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 United States is the top trading partner of the Philippines and also the top destination of highly skilled and professional Filipino workers. This..

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 study looked at the sustainability of the growth and development of business process outsourcing (BPO) in the Philippines. It was prompted by the..

Narrowing the digital divide is an important goal of any ICT policy. It must promote on one hand a high degree of accessibility to the “info..

There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement, investments and deployment of ..

If agriculture has historically been the engine of economic growth of the Philippines, it looks like a new engine is driving it these days—services...