The health of business activities in the country could be used as an indicator in assessing the country's economic performance. In his lecture at the..

State think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has outlined several recommendations to improve the design and implementation of ..

MANILA, Philippines - Replacing the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice with a 35 percent tariff on imports would lower palay (unmilled rice) prices..

This is also higher compared to 47.01 in the same period last year. Source of data: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) To download the time-series da..

In 2017, the special treatment in rice granted to the Philippines that allows the country to maintain its import monopoly will expire. This lifting is..

This paper is one of the few studies that systematically analyze housework in the Philippines. It seeks to understand how wage and attitudes to work a..

Higher education is a key driver of the economic growth of countries. Any country hopes that its universities, including state colleges and universiti..

PIDS-CPBRD Forum on the Review and Assessment of the Students Grants-in-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation

Using fixed effects estimators to remove unobserved heterogeneity and instrumental variable technique to address the endogeneity of income, this paper..

The country’s economic managers appear bent on removing next year the quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice importation to comply with the comm..

THE COUNTRY’S agriculture production is expected to have improved last quarter from the preceding three months and a year ago as El Niño ..

While SEZs generate foreign investment and employment they also deprive farmers of their land and distort the economy For 17 days in December 2012, a..

Meanwhile, on another front, the government has suddenly lowered the Philippines’ poverty incidence to a new 30-year low, at 21.6 percent as of ..