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Drugs and medicines account for about half of the total medical out-of-pocket expenses of households. This share of drugs to total medical expenses is..

What has been the impact of globalization and regional economic integration on the Philippines` automotive industry? How have the country`s automotive..

This report presents the findings of a study which sought to examine the impact of Philippine government regulations on the status of Filipino domesti..

In this update of housing subsidies in the Philippines and the fiscal costs of their application, the author delves into the issue of whether the subs..

In view of the long-standing issues and concerns that beset the Philippine system of higher education, the study attempts to evaluate the performance ..

The Philippines has made a major push toward development of biofuel, enacting biofuels mandates and subsidies by the Biofuels Law. To maintain food se..

What are the factors that contribute to the nonparticipation of children in school? Who are the ones accountable to this complicating issue? This Note..

Despite the various efforts to improve the Philippines` education system, why does this country still have low participation rates in education? What ..

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 ..

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..

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..

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