Philippine - Matches

Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover effects--fellow migrants share inf..

Aggregate labor productivity (ALP) growth--i.e., growth of output per unit of labor--may be decomposed into additive contributions due to within-secto..

The 2011 and 2012 fiscal program appears to score high in terms of contributing to the speed of fiscal consolidation despite limited gains in revenue ..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), being true to its mandate of conducting policy research in aid of planning and policymaking, ..

Water is one of the basic necessities in life, along with food and shelter. It must be clean, safe, and adequate. However, the number of people living..

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..

Globalization highlights the need for public sector reform, good governance, and state capacity building. Thus, this volume highlights the key develop..

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..

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..

Research and development (R&D) is an important resource for sustained economic growth. New knowledge created by a firm has spillover effects that impr..

The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregress..

This paper examines the cost of implementing redistributive land reform in the Philippines. Land redistribution has become the core feature of land re..

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..

Monitoring the behavior of potential output helps policymakers implement appropriate policies in response to an economic crisis. In the short-run, est..

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..