This article defines budget deficit simply as the difference between what the government spends and what it collects in taxes in a given period. It is..

The quantitative restriction (QR) on rice will last until the end of 2004. The paper employs a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze t..

The alarming number of children engaged in labor as released by the National Statistics Office from the years 1995 to 2001 gave rise to a timely natio..

In a democratic country, economic policies succeed or fail depending on its political support. Open trade policies that were initiated and accepted ye..

This paper attempts to examine the performances of Asian AMCs. Our analysis reveals that the AMCs vary significantly in their design and performances...

The shift to a market-oriented credit and financial policy was expected to spur rural financing by the private sector that would help usher growth in ..

The paper traces the roots of the present fiscal problem and concludes that it is largely attributable to the deterioration of the national government..

What may happen if the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice, which puts a limit to the volume of rice imports entering the country, is removed by the..

The paper discusses the ASEAN + 3 integration in the context of the literature on hub-and-spoke regionalism. It argues that, provided proper rules of ..

The effectiveness and capacity by which society manages its watershed resources is mediated by different factors, namely: economic considerations—fi..

In Balian, the presence of indigenous institutions borne by a well entrenched and historically rooted and highly developed sociopolitical arrangement ..

This paper aims to showcase the experience of the Magat watershed in the implementation of the watershed management approach. Magat watershed was decl..

The paper analyzed the presence or absence of elements needed to have an effective system of watershed management in the Maasin Watershed, Iloilo Prov..

Local research in the Manupali watershed, with about 60% of its land area belonging to the upland municipality of Lantapan, Bukidnon, found that water..

This paper presents a synthesis of four case studies of watershed management experiences in the Philippines, primarily to provide insight on why water..