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Services: Today's Most Prolific Industry

Jun 01, 2005

DRN 2005 Vol. XXIII No. 5-a

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...

Development Research News

Trade and Investment in a Globalized Setting: The Experience in Muslim Mindanao

Jun 01, 2005

DRN 2005 Vol. XXIII No. 4-b

Today’s modern and industrial trade processes are influenced by globalization and the Philippines is not exempted to this. It must now exhaust all o..

Development Research News

Rental Housing: Opening Doors for Low-income Households

Jun 01, 2005

DRN 2005 Vol. XXIII No. 4-a

For a family, homeownership is a very important resource given the economic, psychological and social benefits it offers. But not all people have the ..

Development Research News

Contingent Liabilities: Adding Up to the Fiscal Burden

Jun 01, 2005

DRN 2005 Vol. XXIII No. 3

Who will carry the burden of the negative shocks to investments of private investors in infrastructure projects due to possible fluctuations in the ec..

Development Research News

Resolution of Nonperforming Loans: Do Asset Management Companies Matter?

Jun 01, 2005

DRN 2005 Vol. XXIII No. 2

When disturbances like an economic crisis, a market reform or even a change of government occur, the financial sector becomes affected and may result ..

Development Research News

Forecasts, Predictions...The Philippine Economy in 2005

Jun 01, 2005

DRN 2005 Vol. XXIII No. 1

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..

Development Research News

Economic Integration and Regional Cooperation in East Asia: A Pragmatic View

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-32

Intraregional trade and investment among the ASEAN+3 countries—and the entire East Asia—has been progressing at a robust pace over the past 25 yea..

Discussion Papers

Audiovisual Services Sector: Can the Philippines Follow "Bollywood?"

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-31

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

Discussion Papers

Challenges in Health Services Trade: Philippine Case

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-30

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

Discussion Papers

The Philippine Information and Communication Technology Sector: Evolving Structure and Emerging Policy Issues

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-29

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..

Discussion Papers

Sustaining Philippine Advantage in Business Process Outsourcing

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-28

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

Discussion Papers

Cross-Border Transactions in Higher Education: Philippine Competitiveness

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-27

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

Discussion Papers

Does the Philippines Need a Trade Representative Office?

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-26

The paper describes the current decisionmaking structure for trade policy formulation in the Philippines and compares it with the systems in selected ..

Discussion Papers

Interface Between Competition Policy and Infrastructure Regulation in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-25

This short paper attempts to lay down the framework and basic principles for the optimum interface between competition policy and infrastructure regul..

Discussion Papers

The Impact of Market Reforms on Competition, Structure and Performance of the Philippine Economy

Jun 01, 2005

DP 2005-24

The paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on competition and productivity. Competition is the main channel through which trade liberalizati..

Discussion Papers

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