Trade sector - Matches

Recognizing the importance of an outward-oriented policy approach, countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines have liberalize..

Economic openness has been generally viewed as beneficial whether in terms of welfare or efficiency gains. While literature has incorporated that trad..

This paper evaluates the impact of the country’s recent trade liberalization experience on the performance, structure and competitiveness of the ..

This study reviews the structure, performance and competitiveness of the motorcycle and parts industry under a protectionist trade regime and evaluate..

Dr. Josef Yap heralds the good signs in 1993 not just in Asia but in the Philippines as well. However, optimism should be tempered with caution..

Can a Third World country such as the Philippines take “shortcuts” from the agricultural stage to the post-industrial stage? The answer is ..

Opportunities knock only once, so the saying goes. The GATT has been on our doorstep for quite a long time. What do we do about it? The authors..

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

It has been argued that high protection rate retards productivity and efficiency. In view of the widespread belief, the government has instituted trad..

An accounting of the commodities ever subjected to import regulations shows that a significant number have been either restricted after being liberali..

Even with lapses in its implementation during the 1980s, trade reform has been continuously brought to the fore of structural adjustment program. It h..

No country is an Island. This is the message that the author wants to get across the readers as he explores ways of resolving domestic developm..

The story of the Philippine environment during the past two decades is one of growing stress and resource degradation that has recently forced the Phi..

The proposed higher tariffs and the long adjustment period have a negative impact on the short- and long-term interests of the corn and livesto..

The Philippines has been one among the few that still adheres to the home consumption valuation (HCV), a system that, according to many importers, res..