Striking a balance between trade facilitation and preventing trade deflection is the single most difficult challenge with regard to the issue of rules..

With globalization and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) leading to growing international production sharing, amidst the incr..

This paper examines the economy-wide impacts of a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) on the Philippine economy. In particular, it uses an app..

The industry’s lack of competitiveness, absence of economies of scale and a weak supply base are the fundamental issues that must be addressed in or..

In moving toward the East Asian vision of a community, a rational, enabling regime of rules of origin (ROOs) that would encourage deeper economic inte..

Using a political economy perspective, this paper establishes the strong relationship between rice and politics and explains recent developments in th..

With the global economy currently in turmoil amid soaring fuel and food prices and a looming US recession, is there a role for regional cooperation su..

This paper reviews the current empirical literature on competition and market structure of Philippine industries. It shows that weak competition is on..

Changing the base year (1985) of Philippine GDP in constant prices could change the growth rate and the shares of components even when there is no cha..

Land ownership brings with it not only the opportunity for the farmers to improve their lives, but moreso it is a testament that the state is bent on ..

The Philippines has used the BOT law, as amended to motivate private sector provision of infrastructure. Using examples from selected BOT projects in ..

Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households’ partic..

Illness or injury, death of a family member, man-made calamities and natural disasters have a devastating effect on those poor households’ cash flow..

Understanding and eradicating poverty has hounded mankind for centuries and despite the multitudes of studies on the subject, there is still no single..

GDP in constant prices of ASEAN countries suffers from substitution bias by ignoring relative price changes and makes GDP growth and shares dependent ..