The Philippines secured a fresh $300-million worth loan from the World Bank for the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program.In a st..

During his 2016 presidential campaign, former Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte highlighted the need to shift to a federal form of government to encour..

More than half of the Philippines’ land mass is classified as forestlands, making the country a megadiverse area in terms of tropical forests an..

A PIDS study found that housework affects women’s participation in paid work in the marketplace. Women are more likely to participate if they ar..

IN a recent conversation on minimum-wage fixing, Prof. Solita Monsod of Bawal ang Pasaway expressed alarm over the huge minimum-wage demand of organiz..

This process evaluation determines how the program is proceeding since the passage of Republic Act 10533 or the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013. ..

AS REPORTED by this paper yesterday, even if basic education is free, parents in Western Visayas are continuously confronted with daily expenses for t..

MANILA -- A consultant at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is pushing for a comprehensive and detailed long-term strategic acti..

PUBLICATIONSPOLICY NOTES PN 2019-06: Mobilizing Local Governments to Prevent Child Stuntingby Alejandro S. Herrin, Michael R.M. Abrigo, Zhandra C. T..

WOMEN’S participation in the workforce barely improved in the past 30 years, according to a study released by the Philippine Institute for Devel..

This issue of the Development Research News (DRN) focuses on issues impeding the achievement of gender equality in the country, particularly in educat..

The country’s chances of meeting the education and climate change-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are promising based on the findin..

The man brushes away tears. He survived a massacre of nine sugarcane workers in October, he explains, simply because he had popped away to charge his ..

Farmers will soon have access to more digital tools and technologies to help boost productivity and marketability under a new initiative of the Depart..

THE Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), a government think tank, said the K-to-12 Program boosts students’ skills and knowledge..