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Winning the Water Wars: Toward a Watershed-based Approach to Watershed Resources Management: A Policy Agenda for Local Government Units

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-25

The following are offered as guiding principles in the involvement of LGUs in water resources management. • For LGUs to adopt an integrated, holist..

Discussion Papers

Realities of Watershed Management in the Philippines: Synthesis of Case Studies

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-24

This paper presents a synthesis of four case studies of watershed management experiences in the Philippines, primarily to provide insight on why water..

Discussion Papers

Realities of the Watershed Management Approach: The Manupali Watershed Experience

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-23

Local research in the Manupali watershed, with about 60% of its land area belonging to the upland municipality of Lantapan, Bukidnon, found that water..

Discussion Papers

Realities of Watershed Management in the Philippines: The Case of the Iloilo-Maasin Watershed

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-22

The paper analyzed the presence or absence of elements needed to have an effective system of watershed management in the Maasin Watershed, Iloilo Prov..

Discussion Papers

Realities of the Watershed Management Approach: The Magat Watershed Experience

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-21

This paper aims to showcase the experience of the Magat watershed in the implementation of the watershed management approach. Magat watershed was decl..

Discussion Papers

Community-led Watershed-based Water Resources Management: The Case of Balian, Pangil, Laguna

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-20

In Balian, the presence of indigenous institutions borne by a well entrenched and historically rooted and highly developed sociopolitical arrangement ..

Discussion Papers

Realities of a Watershed Management Approach in the Philippines: A Framework for Case Analysis

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-19

The effectiveness and capacity by which society manages its watershed resources is mediated by different factors, namely: economic considerations—fi..

Discussion Papers

Rural Finance and Developments in Philippine Rural Financial Markets: Issues and Policy Research Challenges

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-18

The shift to a market-oriented credit and financial policy was expected to spur rural financing by the private sector that would help usher growth in ..

Discussion Papers

Experience of Crisis-Hit Asian Countries: Do Asset Management Companies Increase Moral Hazard?

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-17

This paper attempts to examine the performances of Asian AMCs. Our analysis reveals that the AMCs vary significantly in their design and performances...

Discussion Papers

Determinants of Individual Trade Policy Preference in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-16

In a democratic country, economic policies succeed or fail depending on its political support. Open trade policies that were initiated and accepted ye..

Discussion Papers

A National Policy Study on Child Labour and Development in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-15

The alarming number of children engaged in labor as released by the National Statistics Office from the years 1995 to 2001 gave rise to a timely natio..

Discussion Papers

Rice Reforms and Poverty in the Philippines: A CGE Analysis

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-14

The quantitative restriction (QR) on rice will last until the end of 2004. The paper employs a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze t..

Discussion Papers

Towards a Strategy for Manufactured Exports to Japan

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-13

The Philippines has become an export-oriented economy, with exports increasing in significance. The electronics industry, in particular, is a showcase..

Discussion Papers

Two Essays on Regional Economic Integration in East Asia

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-12

Regional economic integration in East Asia has gained momentum in the aftermath of the 1997 financial crisis and the escalation of international terro..

Discussion Papers

Movement of Natural Persons Between the Philippines and Japan: Issues and Prospects

Jun 01, 2004

DP 2004-11

Historically, the economic relations between the Philippines and Japan have been shaped by factors leading to the movements of goods, capital and peop..

Discussion Papers

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