Rice - Matches

State-run think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is urging the government to expand the pooled procurement of medicines and&nb..

State-run think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is urging the government to expand the pooled procurement of medicines and&nb..

Despite the enactment of the Cheaper Medicines Act in 2008, access to quality health care without incurring financial hardship continues to be an aspi..

What happens when well-meaning policies achieve results contrary to the common good? The latest book from government think tank Philippine Institute f..

PRESIDENT Duterte may not have heard of Dani Rodrik, but at least they agree on China. By not copying the Western version of going to market, China ap..

The country’s economic managers appear bent on removing next year the quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice importation to comply with the comm..

Conventional wisdom suggests that oil price increases have a negative effect on the output of oil-importing countries. This is grounded on the experie..

This paper aims to examine the employment generation potential of the rice value chain. It analyzes the issues in the chain and the strategies to addr..

This volume consists of articles on agriculture, the oil industry, and telecommunications. The first article studies the employment generation potenti..

The Philippines had enjoyed the protection of quantitative restriction (QR) on rice, or rice- import caps, for more than two decades. Upon joining the..

The rice sector may get at least P27 billion in government assistance, or nearly half of the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) P60.6-billion budg..

The weakening of the peso against the US dollar could make certain food items more expensive in the near-term, but it would be good for exporters as i..

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has thrown its support behind the proposal of Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez’s to replace the country&..

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has thrown its support behind the proposal of Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez’s to replace the country&..

Most of those who benefited from the government’s agricultural insurance program (AIP) are government agencies and big farm owners, rather than ..