Philippines - Matches

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

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

The fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the 1970s to today's market-oriented regime. Government has abandon..

Several bills filed in the Philippine Congress have already proposed amendments in the charter of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) to ..

While the country’s business- process outsourcing (BPO) sector has been known to provide good jobs to millions of Filipinos, economists said rel..

The majority of local government units (LGUs) will “become dynastic” by 2040 if the lack of competition in Philippine politics persist, ac..

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..

Due to its geographic location, the Philippines is vulnerable to disasters, such as tropical cyclones and storm surges. As such, the adoption of an ad..

MANILA — The government needs to have a champion for developing stronger policies and interventions to support and encourage innovations, which ..

MANILA -- The government needs to have a champion for developing stronger policies and interventions to support and encourage innovations, which are a..

The paper aims to consider potential benefits of federalism to the Philippines within the context of two major development constraints, namely, weak e..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), founded in 1977, has gained international recognition for useful research on development issu..

New research suggests women are disadvantaged, but experts say this doesn’t stop those who want to workTraditional gender roles are hindering wo..

The Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Act of 2010, although substantive, is poorly implemented. This, according to a PIDS study..