Openness to foreign labor reflects Singapore`s overall open economic policies and lack of xenophobia as well as a tight labor market as a result of ro..

For economic upgrading toward a knowledge-based economy, Singapore requires a growing pool of professionals and skilled workers, innovators, and entre..

Cross-national labor inflow to Malaysia became prominent in the 1970s. This largely consists of low-skilled economic migrants and refugees, some of wh..

The long experience of deploying large numbers of workers has earned accolade for the Philippines as a global model for managing the deployment of wor..

As in many regions of the world, there is an urgent need in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to address critical gaps in the managem..

Cognizant of the country`s commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly regarding universal primary education (UPE), to..

Despite the improvement of the Philippine economy in the first two quarters of the year and signs that the third quarter statistics will also show gro..

IMF fiscal department advisor Kiyoshi Nakayama said that tax incentives are not the primary factor that influences investors. In the Philippines, he ..

A more competitive environment created by improved infrastructure, better education and the greater integrity of public institutions is a bigger facto..

Tax incentives are not the deciding factor that foreign investors consider when deciding to do business in a country, an official of the Internationa..

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint states the plan of ASEAN countries to unify into a single market and production base. A priority focus fo..

The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint targets an ASEAN single market in 2015. This is an ambitious reform agenda that seeks to ensure the free flow o..

The Mindanao electric power problem, which led to a crisis situation in summer 2012, is primarily due to inadequate baseload capacity and unbalanced g..

This paper describes concepts and tools behind macroprudential monitoring and the growing importance of macroprudential tools for assessing the stabil..

Since the global financial crisis in 2008/09 there has been heightened concern about the resilience of banking systems in Southeast Asia. This paper p..