Given the need to review the investment incentives of the ASEAN countries, this paper quantifies the impact of the investment incentives on the profit..

Dealing with science and technology and economic development, this paper describes the relationship between technological capability and the degree of..

Based on the results of the simulations suggested by the PIDS-NEDA Philippine Annual Macroeconometric Model, this report analyzes the impact of the ex..

This paper integrates the major results of the various studies on urban informal credit markets (ICMs). While the terms of references cover a wide ran..

The crash of Wall Street on October 19, 1987, also called the “Black Monday”, has educed varied global reactions. In reviewing its general ..

In the continuing commitment of PIDS to research, this DRN issue features three research summaries on foreign trade barriers, public sector deficit an..

In general, the past experience of ASEAN seem to show that its failure in promoting the full potentials of economic integration among its memb..

This issue focuses on three of the more recent studies completed by the PIDS fellows. The summaries presented under the Research Folio Series a..

After a series of launching, shelving and relaunching, critical issues now face the Tariff Reform Program. Rumors have it that a reversal of t..

Speaking on various aspects of issues related to public health, Dr. Metodio Palaypay analyzes the health situation in the country, describing e..

This article has been delivered by the author for the 1988 Florence Macaulay Distinguished Lecture on Asia and the Pacific at the University of Hawaii..

This article is a brief review of the financial position of developing countries in the international market. It offers specific policy proposal conce..

This article models the small LDC bankers’ profit maximizing and decisionmaking processes in addressing policy actions. Its implications are use..

This study analyzes the effect of the interaction between domestic indirect taxes and tariff system to the market of particular goods. Computation of ..

This study presents tax policymakers with a menu of alternative tax structures for the Philippines which will yield the best combinations of efficienc..