This document is the result of collaborative efforts among various individuals and institutions to discuss the Manila action plan for APEC. Highlights..

Considering that manufacturing is the lifeblood of industrialization, this article has noted the dramatic decline in its productivity. Indeed, ..

Health care financing is more than just raising funds to finance new/expanded health care. In addition, there is no perfect system from the sta..

The World Bank’s (WB) commitment to reduce poverty remains at the top of its agenda. In support of the government’s social reform agenda, WB assis..

How the Philippines can make the Subic Summit of the APEC a resounding success now that the cooperation is finally ready to spin off trade liberalizat..

This article is an incisive analysis on the current unease and on ideal future of the Asia-Europe partnership offering some notes on how to intensify ..

State policies on the acceptance of foreign workers, particularly unskilled labor, are obscure, if not lacking for many countries. Hence, there has be..

This article featured in this issue discusses the current Philippine telecommunications situation. It recommends several measures that will gua..

This article focuses on the possible restructuring of the budget to favor the social sectors by financing intersectorally from nonsocial to soc..

The alarming projections made by Dr. Lester Brown regarding global food crisis catapulted from the decline of China’s cereal production have ..

Despite the fact that food is a natural prime concern of every society, discussions about trade-related policy issues in this sector have not b..

Should the government play a major role or merely a spectator in the country’s economic growth? In this article, Dr Joseph Stiglitz, a respec..