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Housing Policy for the Poor: Revisiting UDHA and CISFA

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-04

The enactment of two pro-poor housing legislations in the 1990s--the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) of 1992 and the Comprehensive Shelter Fi..

Policy Notes

The 2008 Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Impact on the Philippines and Policy Responses at the National and Regional Levels

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-03

What has really been the extent of the effects of the 2008 global financial and economic crisis on the Philippines? How do they compare with the rest ..

Policy Notes

Performance and Problems of Water Districts: Selected Experiences

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-02

While water districts, as local service providers of level III water systems outside of Metro Manila, are already important, the percentage of the nat..

Policy Notes

Water Service Delivery on the Ground: Targets versus Realities (the Cases of Dumaguete City and Agusan del Sur)

Jun 01, 2009

PN 2009-01

How does Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental measure up to the UN-MDG target of having access to safe drinking water available to 86.6 percent of a coun..

Policy Notes

Unemployment and Inflation in the Philippines: New Evidence from Vector Error Correction Model

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2008 Vol. XXXV No. 1-d

This article empirically analyzes the relationship between unemployment rate and inflation rate in the Philippines over the period 1980-2006. The nega..

Philippine Journal of Development

Fishpen and Fischcage Culture in Laguna de Bay: Status, Economic Importance, and the Relative Severity of Problems Affecting its Practice

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2008 Vol. XXXV No. 1-c

This paper reviews the status of fishpen and fishcage culture in Laguna de Bay, with emphasis on its economic importance and the relative severity of ..

Philippine Journal of Development

Toward Measuring Household Vulnerability to Income Poverty in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2008 Vol. XXXV No. 1-b

The measurement of vulnerability, as in the probability that a household becomes poor, is concomitant to the analysis of poverty. To estimate househol..

Philippine Journal of Development

Can Imports Discipline Collusive Firms?: The Case of the Philippine Cement Industry

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2008 Vol. XXXV No. 1-a

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberaliza..

Philippine Journal of Development

Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2007 Vol. XXXIV No. 2-d

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In thi..

Philippine Journal of Development

A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2007 Vol. XXXIV No. 2-c

How poor are participants of development projects in the Philippines? This paper uses the 2002 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey to construct an easy-t..

Philippine Journal of Development

Econometric Analysis of the Export-led Growth Hypothesis: Evidence for BIMP-EAGA Countries

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2007 Vol. XXXIV No. 2-b

This paper employs several econometric methods to test the validity of the "export-led growth" hypothesis in three BIMP-EAGA countries, i.e., the Phil..

Philippine Journal of Development

A Cautionary Note on the Interpretation of Unit Labor Costs as an Indicator of Competitiveness, with Reference to the Philippines

Jun 01, 2009

PJD 2007 Vol. XXXIV No. 2-a

This note shows that unit labor costs, the most widely used measure of competitiveness, are equivalent to the labor share in output multiplied by a pr..

Philippine Journal of Development

Purchasing Power Parity: Understanding the Law of One Price

Jun 01, 2009

EID 2009 Vol. IX No.2

What makes the concept of purchasing power parity (PPP) popular among economists? What is its use? And what does it signify? This EID explains and ill..

Economic Issue of the Day

Transformational Branchless Banking: Blazing New Trails in Delivering Financial Services

Jun 01, 2009

EID 2009 Vol. IX No.1

With the technology available nowadays, new trails in delivering financial services have been set. This is known as branchless banking which delivers ..

Economic Issue of the Day

Coping with Climate Variability and Change

Jun 01, 2009

DRN 2009 Vol. XXVII No. 5

There is another kind of crisis that is equally devastating as the global economic and financial crisis, perhaps even more threatening, with mankinds ..

Development Research News

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