Agriculture Assistant Secretary Federico Laciste said in a joint statement the partnership with IRRI was crucial in developing a national strategy for..

The government needs to reduce costs of agricultural lending and smallholder finance to make environment more conducive to increased private sector pa..

The current government help to poor families burdened with expensive medical care is not sufficient according to the Philippine Institute for Developm..

This study is an assessment of the catastrophic health financing by several Philippine institutions including government agencies, such as the Philipp..

This Policy Note summarizes the strategies employed by Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, and Thailand in successfully financing catastrophic health expendit..

The national government is a “poor creditor” for smallholder farmers, according to a study released by state-owned think tank Philippine I..

The labor force participation rate was estimated at 63.4 percent while the proportion of underemployed persons (or those employed persons who expresse..

This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It also assesses the Agrarian Produ..

THE iron hand of the President can be seen in his war on drugs. Blood stains on the streets, left as remnants of this war, are among the biggest chang..

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Dec. 26 (PIA) --- Accessing regional social and economic data will now be easy with the opening of the Regional Socio-Economic An..

Neri was 18, a college dropout on her first year, when she got a job at the department store in the mall. On the fourth month, she was told that her ..

CHRISTMAS decoration in the country is marked by Filipinized Western staples–Styrofoam Jack, synthetic pine trees and plastic snowflakes. And ju..

This study evaluates the impact of the agricultural insurance program on agricultural producers in Central Visayas (Region VII) on the premise that ag..

This Policy Note summarizes the lessons from social health insurance experiences in China, Thailand, and Viet Nam. It finds, among others, that all th..

To improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the collection and disbursement of the Motor Vehicle User’s Charge (MVUC) fund, a study by state ..