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Poverty is regarded as the most challenging issue that every political administration in the Philippines is facing. It has been a top priority of any ..

The Local Government Code of 1991 is supposed to transfer some of the regulatory functions of the national government as well as more social service r..

For the 9th commemoration of the Development Policy Research Month (DPRM), the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) chose the theme "Ba..

The Philippines is still primarily an agricultural country. Aside from the agriculture sector`s crucial role in ensuring food security for the Filipin..

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

One way of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is to improve the delivery of basic social services, specifically to the poor. This issue..

Health care service in the country is designed to be delivered under a referral network. Traditionally, an ordinary citizen would go to a clinic or ba..

The feature article in this issue of the DRN is based on the highlights of a recently completed study done by premier economist Dr. Gerardo Sicat whic..

Agriculture remains a primary source of income for our ruralfolks, and farming remains to be a major means of livelihood. In this issue of the DRN, PI..

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..

The main feature in this issue points out the importance of recognizing the right of Filipino indigenous children to be culturally different from the ..

There is another kind of crisis that is equally devastating as the global economic and financial crisis, perhaps even more threatening, with mankinds ..

Who holds the "power of the purse" in terms of control and disbursement of the national budget in the Philippines? Congress (the House of Representati..

Education in the Philippines for many years now has suffered much in terms of quality. True, while access to education may no longer be an issue toda..

Most countries generally equate development to economic growth and vice versa. Years of economic growth, however, have failed to uplift the lives of F..