This paper, which is borne out of the need to address scarcity of evidence-based studies on barangay financing, analyzes and evaluates key issues on ..

The recent global financial and economic crisis which started in the United States and expanded to other developed countries has, to some extent, affe..

Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food sec..

Certain economists observe that following the Flying Geese pattern of development in the aftermath of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis has resulte..

Are price controls the best answer to alleviating consumer pains in the face of rising prices of basic commodities and services? Do they help the econ..

With the political noise brought about by the upcoming national elections as well as the prospects of a global economic recovery as backdrop, what cou..

Ranking provinces in terms of human development, which provinces fared well and which fared badly across time in each of the components of the human d..

In this paper, we present a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both food and nonfood poverty thres..

Research and development (R&D) is an important resource for sustained economic growth. New knowledge created by a firm has spillover effects that impr..

The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregress..

This paper examines the cost of implementing redistributive land reform in the Philippines. Land redistribution has become the core feature of land re..

Statistics on the distribution of ODA loans show that the local government sector is the smallest direct recipient of this funding source. While it ha..

Monitoring the behavior of potential output helps policymakers implement appropriate policies in response to an economic crisis. In the short-run, est..

Trade reforms, in particular reduction and/or removal of tariffs on imports, are aimed to bring about lower prices of certain goods. In the case of th..

The Philippines has used the Build-operate-transfer (BOT) Law as amended to motivate private sector provision of infrastructure. After a brief period ..