The Department of Trade and Industry will come up by the first quarter next year a comprehensive industrial development masterplan that would specify ..

More efficient public goods and services and a more business-friendly environment could help eradicate corruption in the country, an economist said at..

Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical Coordination Board. Poverty in..

The role of education in economic development is widely acknowledged. It increases the innovative capacity of an economy and facilitates the diffusion..

This Policy Note assesses whether the rice self-sufficiency target can be attained and sustained at reasonable cost. The assessment is based on two ap..

One of the major challenges in the Philippine health sector is to secure adequacy of appropriate health facilities. To address this problem, the Healt..

This study proposes a set of indicators for monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policy, patterned after the support estimates of the Organizatio..

This study examines the performance of the National Food Authority (NFA) with respect to its function of price stability and implications for public f..

This study attempts to measure subsidies to agricultural credit in recent years and provides policy implications. It finds that credit policy has evol..

The Philippines` robust services sector must be coupled with a vibrant manufacturing sector to achieve inclusive growth in the country, an economist a..

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..