Philippines - Matches
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This first issue of the Development Research News (DRN) for 2020 puts light on some key challenges in the Philippine education sector. The banner stor..
Development Research News
As several countries have reduced tariff rates, other forms of regulatory measures that impact on trade have proliferated. These regulations, collecti..
Research Paper Series
The study analyzes the efficiency implications of fiscal decentralization using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It uses health expenditure (in per..
Discussion Papers
The Philippines is slowly ageing. In a little over a decade, the country’s elderly will comprise at least 7 percent of the total population. This ri..
Research Paper Series
This study continues previous work on estimating the vulnerability level of households to income poverty
using a modified probit model based on income..
Research Paper Series
In 2013, amid celebrations over reaching investment grade status for the Philippines under the Aquino administration, I wrote an article questioning w..
In the News
Housework, also called unpaid work or nonmarket work, is performed across countries and societies to enhance the well-being of individuals in househol..
Policy Notes
Typhoons, pests, and other natural calamities cause the country, particularly the agricultural sector, significant damages. For instance, Typhoons Yol..
Discussion Papers
The Department of Education (DepEd) is the biggest agency in the Philippine bureaucracy to implement the performance-based bonus (PBB) scheme. This Po..
Policy Notes
This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression di..
Discussion Papers
The Philippine government has adopted a performance-based incentive system (PBIS) for employees in the executive department to motivate higher perform..
Policy Notes
Free trade agreements (FTAs) and regional trade agreements (RTAs), as a national policy, have proliferated in the recent decades as countries perceive..
Discussion Papers
In 1993, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) published a report containing recommendations that recognized the economic interdependence and e..
Discussion Papers
Health human resource (HHR) is critical in the delivery of health care services. However, the available evidences on their geographic distribution and..
Discussion Papers
This research assesses the sophistication content of the country's current export portfolio and identifies products that result in a more diversified ..
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