Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

This paper is a preliminary review of the state of competition in the insurance industry of selected Asian countries. In particular, it explores how c..

This paper addresses the lack of information on the disparity of outcomes, utilization and access to Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health ser..

This paper examines the conduct of exchange rate policy in the Philippines since the early 1980s, paying particular attention to the influence of exch..

In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microf..

What led to the dynamic growth of the microfinance market in the Philippines? According to Dr. Gilberto Llanto in this Policy Notes, the microfinance ..

This paper examines the effects of the reduction in tariff rates in the Philippines from 1994 to 2000 on unemployment, distribution and poverty using ..

Should the various currencies in East Asia led by the Chinese yuan be appreciated or revalued? Dr. Josef Yap examines the levels of valuation of these..

What will 2003 offer for the Philippine economy? Will this be another year of struggle for the whole nation? Or will there be plenty of opportunities ..

This paper focuses on the shipping transport subsector of the shipping industry because of its high sensitivity to government policies as well as its ..

Amid the calls for the restructuring--and even possible replacement--of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to effect radical improvements in tax adm..

This paper looks at the regulatory reforms in the electricity and downstream oil industries, two important inputs to the production process that were ..

One result of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis was greater awareness of the need for closer financial and monetary cooperation. This paper makes a..

Early child-bearing and high fertility still persist especially among the poor, despite the more than two decades of family planning program implement..

National innovation system is anchored on the theory that industrial development requires technological capability in industry, and that exploitation ..