While the ASEAN has achieved peace and stability in the region, it has nothing significant to boast about its economic achievements. This study examin..

The Dynamics of Rural Development is a three–year research program implemented by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies that addresses is..

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the links among conceptual, empirical and policy issues relating to agricultural growth, rural d..

Against the backdrop of the cattle stock depletion and the stagnation of economic activities at the backyard level, this paper reviews the history of ..

The agrarian reform program represents an important innovation that will alter the landscape of the rural sector. While the focus of literature on int..

While the CARP under the Aquino administration is expected to bring beneficial result, it may also carry with it adverse effects. One aspect that is e..

There is a good reason to justify the support for small and microenterprise development. At this point, what is more important is the formulation of r..

The center of the county’s agrarian question is rooted in the skewed land distribution pattern. In addition, this particular agrarian structure is a..

Utilizing secondary information and current literature, this paper documents and analyzes the following: the utilization of landowner’s compensatio..

Despite high agricultural growth, the Philippine unemployed and underemployed has continued to swell. Rural poverty incidence has remained high and in..

Inasmuch as a large portion of the family labor force in the farm is women and youth, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program can substantially impa..

The Philippine agriculture sector’s limited capacity to absorb the existing rural labor force has led to the demand for nonfarm employment in the ru..

While debates have been going around on whether or not to allocate big amount of resources on debt servicing, the country’s foreign debt cont..

Running the central machine of the Philippine bureaucracy is a tall order. Problems rooted in the past continue to grip the sector and threaten..

You need only to travel a few stretch of Metro Manila’s streets to understand the country’s transportation problems. Through facts and figu..