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The Quest for a Better Environment: Past Experiences and Future Challenges

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-14

The persistence of serious natural resource depletion and environmental degradation means that much remains to be done years into the implementation o..

Discussion Papers

Monitoring Economic Vulnerability and Performance: Applications to the Philippines

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-13

The recent spate of banking and currency crises has underscored the need to develop early warning systems. These are based on economic indicators of v..

Discussion Papers

Efficiency and Expense Preference in the Philippines' Cooperative Rural Banks

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-12

This paper attempted to test whether efficient cooperative rural banks (CRBs) have a better control of their agency costs. We used two different conce..

Discussion Papers

Estimating Industry Benchmarks for the Value Added Tax

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-11

Various indicators (e.g., VAT-to-GNP ratio, VAT evasion rate) suggest that problems in VAT administration have not only persisted during the 1990s but..

Discussion Papers

Central Banking in the Philippines: Then, Now and the Future

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-10

The country’s central bank has a profound impact on the lives of all residents in the country. This paper attempted to put some policy issues on cen..

Discussion Papers

A Perspective on Macroeconomic and Economy-Wide Quantitative Models of the Philippines: 1990-2002

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-09

Criticism against large-scale macroeconometric models built in the tradition of the Cowles Commission approach began to mount in the late 1960s. These..

Discussion Papers

Governance in Southeast Asia: Issues and Options

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-07

This paper attempts to analyze governance systems in Southeast Asia and proposes some policy suggestions that can improve governance practices in the..

Discussion Papers

Development of Tax Forecasting Models: Corporate and Individual Income Taxes

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-06

Assessment of the fiscal sector performance in the last decade has often laid the blame on poor revenue performance to below-target tax collection per..

Discussion Papers

ASEAN's Fledgling Debt Securities Markets: More tasks Ahead

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-05

ASEAN economies have long recognized the importance of developing a deep and broad domestic debt securities market to complement the banking system in..

Discussion Papers

Globalization and Employment: The Impact of Trade on Employment Level and Structure in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-04

This paper presents one of the few empirical estimates of the impact of globalization, here represented by trade flows, on employment level and struct..

Discussion Papers

Regional Development in the Philippines: A Review of Experience, State of the Art and Agenda for Research and Action

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-03

Regional development policy and practice took significant transformations over the last five decades. Its relevance has been challenged in recent year..

Discussion Papers

Impact of Agrarian Reform on Poverty

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-02

Using panel data from about 1,500 farm households and estimating from a logit model, results show that agrarian reform has had a positive impact on fa..

Discussion Papers

Total Factor Productivity in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-01

The paper presents estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) from 1967 to 2000. It was observed that while TFP growth was mostly negative in th..

Discussion Papers

2001 PIDS Annual Report: Strengthening the Infrastructure for Research and Networking

May 13, 2015

PIDS AR 2001

The Institute has set up virtual connections between the research community and its primary and secondary audiences. The grasping arms reflect the lev..

Annual Reports

A Review of the Components of the Medium-Term National Action Agenda for Productivity (MNAAP) 2000-2004

Jun 01, 2001

RPS 2001-02

This paper is part of the project “A Review of the Components of the Medium-Term National Action Agenda for Productivity (MNAAP)” by the Philippin..

Research Paper Series

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