On May 24, Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said the P70-billion Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program or 4Ps only makes beneficiaries overl..

Dara Mae Tuazon, the 19-year-old founder of Bangketa Eskwela, is the first recipient of The One Philippines Humanitarian Award In a makeshift tent al..

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This paper defines the middle-income class as those whose per capita incomes are within two- and twelve- times the (official) poverty line. Descriptiv..

The Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) is one of the landmark pro-market reforms implemented to achieve reliable and competitively priced elec..

Singapore Embassy in the Philippines’ Deputy Chief of Mission Ms. Zhou Suli visited PIDS for an introductory meeting with PIDS President Dr. Cel..

The Philippines should already consider enhancing its transparency for investment, possibly starting with improving the information content of the for..

THE significance of the Shipping and logistics industry in a country’s economic growth cannot be overemphasized. The industry manages the trans..

Education is widely recognized as an imperative to attain inclusive growth and sustainable development, including acceleration of poverty reduction. T..

The country’s Regular Foreign Investment Negative List (RFINL) remained silent on other restrictions that prevent foreign investors from making ..

THE PHILIPPINE Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) wants to broaden the level of transparency in the government’s foreign investment negati..

THE PHILIPPINE Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) wants to broaden the level of transparency in the government’s foreign investment negati..

PUBLICATIONSPOLICY NOTEPN 2018-03: Ensuring the Success of Agribusiness Ventures in the Philippinesby Blanquita R. Pantoja, Joanne V. Alvarez, and Flo..

The members of the 2018 Development Policy Research Month (DPRM) Steering Committee convened at the PIDS office in Quezon City on May 29, 2018 to talk..

This Policy Note revisits the policy objective of the Foreign Investment Act (FIA) and the implementation of the foreign investment negative list (FIN..