The term tropical cyclone is called hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean, cyclone over the Indian Ocean and typhoon over the Pacific Ocean which includes..

Do men benefit more than women from government expenditures in health care? Or do women have the upper hand? Using a sex-differentiated incidence anal..

When disturbances like an economic crisis, a market reform or even a change of government occur, the financial sector becomes affected and may result ..

Who will carry the burden of the negative shocks to investments of private investors in infrastructure projects due to possible fluctuations in the ec..

If agriculture has historically been the engine of economic growth of the Philippines, it looks like a new engine is driving it these days—services...

Through a free trade agreement (FTA), the Philippines, like other less developed countries, hopes to achieve greater access to the US market. For the ..

This article examines the politico-strategic motivations of the Bush Administration’s efforts to foster free trade agreements (FTAs) to a number of ..

This is the inaugural issue of the SCF Project Updates, the official semestral newsletter of the project "Bridging the gap between between seasonal cl..

The government think tank, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), has named Josef T. Yap as president of the Institute effective April..

The 2003 functional literacy rate (84.1 percent)is similar that of 1994 (83.8 percent). Among the regions, NCR had the highest rate (94.6 percent), ..

The monthly average exchange rate went down from P55.766/dollar in January to P54.813 per US dollar in February, 2005. Year-on-year headline infla..

Economic experts on Wednesday warned that the lingering fiscal crisis stands in the way of the Philippine government in achieving the ambitious Mille..

THE domestic economy would grow by 5.6 percent only this year owing to the decline in consumer expenditure because of higher taxes and fuel prices, ..

The country will see a slower growth of 5.6% in 2005 due to higher taxes, high fuel prices as well as the absence of last year`s heavy election spen..

The boom-bust cycle of economic growth, coupled with weak poverty alleviation programs, have contributed to the government`s failure to significantly ..