In understanding President Rodrigo Duterte’s announcements (and rants), one needs a sensible and “applied” approach – a techni..

Removing the quota on rice imports and instead slapping them with a 35-percent tariff rate will bring down domestic prices by up to P7 a kilo, the Dep..

Only 13 percent of adults in Metro Manila, Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao have risk-protection cover, according to a paper released by the Philippine..

Risk is a daily reality especially among agricultural producers in developing countries, thus agricultural insurance is of interest to farmers, policy..

Barriers to trade and investment stifle economic expansion. The impacts are most profound when they are applied to the services sector given its role ..

The Southeast Asian state needs to invest more in this important area. Product innovations like Apple’s iPhoneX, the Fitbit watch, and Bitcoin ..

The Philippines recently introduced two distinct but related large-scale social protection programs that, first, provides conditional cash transfers (..

This study assesses the existing planning and programming systems for capital projects at the national and agency levels, examines the experiences of ..

This paper contributes to the literature on financial inclusion in the Philippines by examining three key financial services, namely, savings, credit,..

AS the curtain of “unfair trade” closes for the interests of farmers from developing countries, the Philippines stands in the middle: no o..

State think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies launched a PIDS corner at the Sorsogon State College (SSC) in Bicol on December 13, as p..

This study evaluates the performance of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the last 30 years using the program's theory of change. A ..

After completion of their land reform program, countries such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan implemented land consolidation to effect economies of ..