The Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) scheme represents the main mechanism to remove barriers to intra-ASEAN trade. Its adoption will entail..

The government budget may be viewed as the financial mirror of society's economic and social choices, but does the budget contribute to the attainment..

This article is culled from the author's presentation during the Forum on Population and Urbanization: Managing the Urbanization Process Under a Decen..

This paper explains the evolution of the metropolitan organizations that have been established to oversee the development of Metro Manila, provides a ..

The paper analyzes the Philippine Fisheries Code in relation to the objective of sustainable development in the fisheries sector. The paper finds that..

This study reviews the economic policies and performance of the Philippine economy in the 1990s, briefly assesses the macro- and microeconomic impacts..

This paper reviews the arguments for and against the imposition of capital controls in the Philippines and discusses the liberalization process undert..

This paper tries to verify empirically the claim that there has been a credit crunch in the Philippines since the onset of the Asian financial crisis ..

This paper reviews the status of R&D in the Philippine fisheries sector and identifies the problems it is facing. It finds that fisheries R&D is gener..

This paper presents an update of the Population and Development Planning (PDP) model. The PDP model is an economic-demographic model designed to captu..

The paper reviews the continuing debate on the interrelationships between population growth and economic development with particular attention to its ..

This study is a quantitative assessment of regional development performance in terms of economic growth and convergence (described simply as the minim..

Sometime in the early 1970s, the Philippines and Thailand had about the same population size. Today, the Philippine population has grown so much bigge..

With housing policy declared as a priority policy concern of the Estrada administration, it is only logical to expect that an effective and sustainabl..

With the delivery of most basic social services now devolved in the hands of local government units, has the process of budgeting followed suit? How f..