PIDS - Philippine Institute for Development Studies

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The Quest for a Better Environment: Past Experiences and Future Challenges

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-14

The persistence of serious natural resource depletion and environmental degradation means that much remains to be done years into the implementation o..

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Monitoring Economic Vulnerability and Performance: Applications to the Philippines

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-13

The recent spate of banking and currency crises has underscored the need to develop early warning systems. These are based on economic indicators of v..

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Efficiency and Expense Preference in the Philippines' Cooperative Rural Banks

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-12

This paper attempted to test whether efficient cooperative rural banks (CRBs) have a better control of their agency costs. We used two different conce..

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Estimating Industry Benchmarks for the Value Added Tax

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-11

Various indicators (e.g., VAT-to-GNP ratio, VAT evasion rate) suggest that problems in VAT administration have not only persisted during the 1990s but..

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Central Banking in the Philippines: Then, Now and the Future

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-10

The country’s central bank has a profound impact on the lives of all residents in the country. This paper attempted to put some policy issues on cen..

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A Perspective on Macroeconomic and Economy-Wide Quantitative Models of the Philippines: 1990-2002

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-09

Criticism against large-scale macroeconometric models built in the tradition of the Cowles Commission approach began to mount in the late 1960s. These..

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Governance in Southeast Asia: Issues and Options

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-07

This paper attempts to analyze governance systems in Southeast Asia and proposes some policy suggestions that can improve governance practices in the..

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Development of Tax Forecasting Models: Corporate and Individual Income Taxes

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-06

Assessment of the fiscal sector performance in the last decade has often laid the blame on poor revenue performance to below-target tax collection per..

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ASEAN's Fledgling Debt Securities Markets: More tasks Ahead

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-05

ASEAN economies have long recognized the importance of developing a deep and broad domestic debt securities market to complement the banking system in..

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Globalization and Employment: The Impact of Trade on Employment Level and Structure in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-04

This paper presents one of the few empirical estimates of the impact of globalization, here represented by trade flows, on employment level and struct..

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Regional Development in the Philippines: A Review of Experience, State of the Art and Agenda for Research and Action

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-03

Regional development policy and practice took significant transformations over the last five decades. Its relevance has been challenged in recent year..

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Impact of Agrarian Reform on Poverty

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-02

Using panel data from about 1,500 farm households and estimating from a logit model, results show that agrarian reform has had a positive impact on fa..

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Total Factor Productivity in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2002

DP 2002-01

The paper presents estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) from 1967 to 2000. It was observed that while TFP growth was mostly negative in th..

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Microfinance Approach to Housing: The Community Mortgage Program

Jun 01, 2001

DP 2001-28

The paper provides an assessment of the Community Mortgage Program as a government-housing program for households belonging to the lowest income decil..

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Deregulation of Bank Entry and Branching: Impact on Competition

Jun 01, 2001

DP 2001-27

This paper looks at public policy towards bank entry and branching in the Philippines and its impact on the sector’s structure, conduct and performa..

Discussion Papers

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