Subsidy - Matches

The first issue of PIDS Policy Pulse for 2025 highlights promising trends and opportunities for the Philippines to sustain its growth and at..

The Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) program of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tert..

This study evaluates the Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES), a key component of the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (Republic Act No...

This quarter’s Development Research News (DRN) focuses on critical strategies and interventions that can transform Philippine agriculture a..

A recent study by the state think tank, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), finds that maintaining current economic trends will not b..

The current inflationary period has placed the spotlight on hunger and food insecurity, as the current Philippine Development Plan has strongly emphas..

In a developing country such as the Philippines, social protection is crucial in providing support to the poor and vulnerable. There has been recent p..

On August 13, 2017, the Philippine government enacted into law the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (UAQTE) or Republic Act 10931, a..

The country's irrigation systems have had a long history of recovering maintenance cost from farmers. The Free Irrigation Service Act (FISA) of 2018 w..

In a developing country such as the Philippines, social protection has been a consistent priority of government to redistribute income to the poor, ma..

Policymakers must plan this early how to sustain the tuition-free college law. If not, elite state universities will turn into diploma mills. Starved ..

Whenever I attend the inaugurations of our new social housing projects in Mindanao, I always find groups of children milling around as if wanting to j..

Some years back, University of Chicago economists Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales wrote a book called “Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists...

Days after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act or the free tuition law, the UP System announced th..

There’s no free lunch, but in the Philippines there’s free housing, education and, soon, free irrigation and tax-free incomes.Last week Pr..