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What are the problems that the mining sector faces today? Can value addition help in alleviating some of these problems? Does this sector have other p..
Policy Notes
Globalization highlights the need for public sector reform, good governance, and state capacity building. Thus, this volume highlights the key develop..
Books
With the political noise brought about by the upcoming national elections as well as the prospects of a global economic recovery as backdrop, what cou..
Development Research News
Ranking provinces in terms of human development, which provinces fared well and which fared badly across time in each of the components of the human d..
Policy Notes
Research and development (R&D) is an important resource for sustained economic growth. New knowledge created by a firm has spillover effects that impr..
Discussion Papers
The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency
explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregress..
Discussion Papers
This paper examines the cost of implementing redistributive land reform in the Philippines. Land redistribution has become the core feature of land re..
Discussion Papers
Statistics on the distribution of ODA loans show that the local government sector is the smallest direct recipient of this funding source. While it ha..
Discussion Papers
Monitoring the behavior of potential output helps policymakers implement appropriate policies in response to an economic crisis. In the short-run, est..
Discussion Papers
Trade reforms, in particular reduction and/or removal of tariffs on imports, are aimed to bring about lower prices of certain goods. In the case of th..
Policy Notes
The Philippines has used the Build-operate-transfer (BOT) Law as amended to motivate private sector provision of infrastructure. After a brief period ..
Books
The Asia and Pacific region and Latin American and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic distance, but also by disparit..
Discussion Papers
A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has
highlighted the food insecurity problem facing the globe: food production..
Discussion Papers
This study evaluates the Philippines` absorptive performance for foreign aid, particularly during the six-year period 2003 to 2008, and compare this t..
Discussion Papers
Despite the many propoor policies, programs, and projects instituted, the country's gains in the fight against poverty have still been modest. This No..
Policy Notes
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