This paper investigates the Philippine government's price stabilization policy for rice. Seemingly unrelated regressions are used to examine the effec..

When poor households face catastrophic events, they do not have any means for risk protection. Access to formal risk protection schemes such as insura..

The paper determines the factors affecting the export performance of firms in three main manufacturing sectors in the Philippines. Specifically, firm-..

This paper examines the country's investment incentive program for foreign investors and its success in attracting substantial FDI inflows. The analys..

2007 is indeed a notable year for the Philippines in terms of economic growth. Can this performance be sustained in 2008? PIDS President Dr. Josef Yap..

How ready is the Philippines' automotive industry to face the zero tariff environment under the AFTA by 2010? And is the industry prepared for the glo..

The Philippine government considers Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as a new breed of economic investors in the country. Much has been said about the..

This paper presents the evolution of major practices in Philippine rice production over the last 100 years. These practices evolved out of the changes..

The period 2005-2007 saw a significant improvement in the revenue effort of the Philippines' Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). What contributed to the..

Data users have been effectively accessing pertinent data from respective data generators, but the changing times and demands of globalization and inn..

With the Philippine government all set to roll out its own version of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program called "Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino ..

Free trade agreements (FTAs) are seen to boost a nation's competitiveness in the global trade arena. Asia, albeit a "late bloomer" in initiating FTAs ..

It looks to me that Prof. Merlin Magallona`s reasons for claiming that the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is unconstitutional..

Too much hysterics and too little sane reasoning,is how a colleague of mine described what is going on with respect to the hearings on the Japan-Phili..

Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, warned Thursday that the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership A..