This Policy Note provides an overview of the puzzle of economic growth and stalled health improvement in the country. The Philippine economy has grown..

This Policy Note explains the large disparities in health status between the poor and the nonpoor in the Philippines. Key factors include: (1) the per..

This Policy Note identifies opportunities for making health financing and services more inclusive. Many opportunities exist today to make growth more ..

In a PIDS policy note titled “Urgent: A road map for agro-industrial development in the Philippines,” authors Roehlano Briones and Ivory Myka Gala..

Between 1974 and 2004, the average labor productivity growth in the Philippine manufacturing industry stood at 0.29 percent, lower than Indonesia`s 4...

In a statement released by state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Asian Development Bank (ADB) Independent Evalua..

The country`s economy has developed a resilience to the impact of natural disasters but remains vulnerable to global financial shocks, said speakers a..

State think-tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies joins Bangkok-based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Paci..

Development goals and needs of the manufacturing, chemicals, and copper industries were unveiled on Tuesday, the first three of 30 industry roadmaps d..

This research paper looks into the automated election experiences of different countries and compares them with the Philippine case. It also attempts ..

When the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program was designed, the government publicly promised to limit to five years the giving of the education and hea..

FIRES that occurred across the nation caused more casualties in the past three years compared to those from 2005 to 2009, according to a discussion pa..

CHEd`s ongoing program for public higher education reform rests on the tacit and questionable premise that the required flexibility already exists in ..

Extending the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps beyond five years for current beneficiaries is needed to allow the poor to “outgrow” the ..

THE COUNTRY`S competition policies must be reformed for fairness, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said in a press release on S..