WONDER no more why we have a high unemployment rate: The government does not have a comprehensive industry plan that will cover all sectors and addres..

WITH the policies of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) expected to take effect by December 2015, exporters lamented the slow dissemination of informa..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has underscored the need to create 14.6-million jobs in the next four years by keeping the c..

EXPERTS from state-run think tank Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) and the World Bank (WB) believe a comprehensive industry road map..

For the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS), health and wealth go together — that is, improvement in the economy should also redound ..

The Philippines needs to increase government spending for health as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) to help attain inclusive growth, acc..

Philippine government spending on health care is short of the at least 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) recommended by the World Health Organ..

“The Philippine economy has grown respectably in the past few years, but the overall health status indicators have not markedly improved commensurat..

Health expenditures in the Philippines must increase to 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product from the current level of 3 to 3.5 percent..

Given the 1.8 million yearly increase in population, the country still largely ignores the health sector, coughing up about 3 percent of the public sp..

The Philippine government spends only 3 percent on public health, much smaller than what the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommends. Oscar P..

This paper shows that the decomposition of log-change in aggregate labor productivity (ALP) devised by Balk (2013) based on Sato-Vartia indexes is ine..

This paper draws lessons from international practices to determine the feasibility of developing mortgage-backed securitization (MBS) to expand housin..

A top official of the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) has underscored the urgent need to address the gap between the richest and th..

September of every year was declared as Development Policy Research Month (DPRM) by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 247 signed on September 2..