The Philippines is still primarily an agricultural country. Aside from the agriculture sector`s crucial role in ensuring food security for the Filipin..

This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at subnational levels. The results ..

Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up further to 26.5 percent in 2009. Although..

Addressing gender gaps is a major development objective anywhere in the world. This paper aims to illustrate that this is far more critical in the pre..

This paper reviews the Philippine international labor migration management infrastructure using Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) framework. Thirty yea..

The Philippines committed to Millennium Development Goals and Education for All (EFA) targets that include universal primary education. However, vario..

The monthly average peso-dollar exchange rate slightly went up to 43.6486 in December from 43.2745 in November. On a year-on-year basis, the peso a..

Singapore has one of the most open economies in Asia in terms of trade, foreign direct investment inflows, and foreign labor inflows. By 2010, citizen..

This study looks at emigration governance in the context of decentralized Indonesia. It examines various local initiatives that have evolved following..

The study examines the characteristics, root causes, and challenges of irregular migration from Cambodia and then discusses the regulatory approaches ..

The study on "Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN: Thailand" aimed to study policies and institution arrangement for managing internationa..

Modeling of crop supply frequently adopts separate treatment of area and yield variables. The advantage of this approach is that it conveniently impos..

Amid the controversy and discussion regarding the potentials of the government`s 4Ps, this Policy Note provides some data that look into the program`s..

Highly unequal access to health services and the large share of household out-of-pocket spending in total health expenditures underscore the importanc..

The Global Financial Crisis of 2007 was one of the worst crises that hit the world economy since the Depression era. For the next two years, the crisi..