The implementation of the National Single Window (NSW) in the country will soon become a common system used by the exporters and importers when tradin..

POLICYMAKERS should employ information technology (IT) to drive innovation in the country's health sector and make health care more accessible and aff..

Medical tourism is poised to continue growing globally in the next few years due to combined economic, demographic, epidemiological, communication, an..

This issue of the Development Research News (DRN) covers the highlights of the 14th Global Development Conference in Manila organized by Global Develo..

THE Philippines needs to beef up manufacturing if it wants economic growth to be inclusive, according to the Philippine Institute for Development Stud..

THE lawyer of importers whose rice shipments have been unlawfully seized by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) upon the instructions of the National Food Au..

The Philippines needs to beef up manufacturing if it wants economic growth to be inclusive, according to the Philippine Institute for Development Stud..

The clock is ticking for the impending ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) which has a target of 2015. The plan envisions a region fully integrated into th..

We bring you our thirty-first volume of the PIDS Development Research News which has an enhanced design and layout. In this first issue for 2013, PIDS..

Questions of sustainability and inclusiveness of economic growth have always been raised in academic and policy debates. In this third issue of the PI..

The road to inclusive growth can start with education. Human resource is the backbone of the economy, and a well-trained, highly competitive workforce..

The latest poverty statistics released by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) have attracted considerable attention as they clearly sho..

One of the inevitable consequences of economic growth is rapid urbanization. The developing world has seen the emergence of megacities, which are vita..

Competition is a touchy subject in the developing world. In the Philippines, the unvarnished truth is that there is hardly a culture of competition. P..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said that the country’s manufacturing lag from the 1990s to 2000s caused the "boom-bust cycl..