Briones, Roehlano M. - Matches

Given the recent developments in the international rice markets, the relevance of the original mandate of National Food Authority (NFA) as a regulator..

The Philippine economy has entered a period of growth acceleration since 2011. From 2011 to 2016 alone, the World Bank estimates that the country's pe..

This Policy Note presents projections for the Philippine agriculture in the context of the growth of the economy and agroindustry. Among others, it re..

Inclusive growth requires boosting incomes of workers currently in agriculture, either by shifting them to better-paying jobs outside agriculture or r..

The main driver of long-run economic growth is total factor productivity. Among the basic sectors, namely, agriculture, industry, and services, inclus..

The fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the 1970s to today's market-oriented regime. Government has abandon..

This 2017, the Philippines' quantitative restriction (QR) on rice, which allows the government to limit the volume of rice that could be imported each..

A well-known indicator of comparative advantage is domestic resource cost (DRC). This study provides updated estimates of DRC for major agricultural c..

The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice. Since the 1960s, various gove..

In the Philippines, the rice and corn sectors play an integral role in the agricultural economy in terms of production and employment. However, both s..

In 2017, the special treatment in rice granted to the Philippines that allows the country to maintain its import monopoly will expire. This lifting is..

PIDS Senior Research Fellow Roehlano Briones provides an assessment of the Philippine economy in 2015 and outlook for the current year in this first i..

This study implements an updated set of projections for Philippine agriculture, which addresses the following key issues: (1) the proper modeling of l..

Inclusive business (IB) is a private sector approach to providing goods, services, and livelihoods on a commercially viable basis, either at scale or ..

Inadequate application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer has been identified by the Food Staples Sufficiency Program as a major constraint in achieving rice ..