Year-on-year inflation rate increased to 3.4 percent in June from 2.7 percent in May. Composite Index closes at 1,222.80 for the month of June. ..

Year-on-year inflation rate decelerated to 2.7 percent in May from 2.8 percent in April. Composite Index closes at 1,073.69 for the month of May...

Tariff reform, particularly tariff reduction, is one of the major economic reforms implemented in the last one and half decades in the Philippines. Th..

East Asia has been caught with regionalism in recent years. There has been a proliferation of bilateral and regional trading arrangement initiatives a..

The paper discusses critical land issues in the Philippines and assesses the integration of those issues in the national development agenda and povert..

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

The Philippines has not been immune to the worldwide trend towards the creation of semi-autonomous revenue authorities. To date, three bills are pendi..

This paper first examines the extent of cost and profit inefficiencies of the Philippine credit cooperative system using stochastic frontier analysis ..

In the past one and a half decades, the Philippine government pursued major economic policy reforms. One of the key focused areas is the trade sector...

The paper analyzes the possible effects of tariff reduction in the 1990s on unemployment, household income and household welfare using a computable ge..

This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income inequality. The approach relaxes the r..

For many years, the Philippines has neglected the issue of population growth, consequently finding itself now virtually alone among middle-income deve..

This study examines benefits (and losses) from the rent control law in Metro Manila. The results show that net benefits from rent control are positive..

This paper attempts to analyze governance systems in Southeast Asia and proposes some policy suggestions that can improve governance practices in the ..

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. It employs poverty dec..