This paper is part of the Philippine study for the ERIA project on the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint. A milest..

As 2015 draws near, assessing ASEAN`s progress toward the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) defined by the AEC Blueprint is necessary and instructive. Th..

As 2015 draws near, assessing ASEAN`s progress toward the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) defined by the AEC Blueprint is necessary and instructive. Th..

Education equips an individual with the necessary knowledge and skills that he/she needs to become a functional member of a society. However, to estab..

The electric power crisis in Mindanao in the summer of 2012 and the current precariously low power reserves primarily resulted from insufficient basel..

According to a study conducted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), productivity growth was behind the `spectacular` economic p..

THE Philippines should continue adopting an inclusive growth economic policy to increase its productivity and catch up with Asian neighbors that enjo..

The time has come for us to ask from and of them the kind of results we had expected from the first year but willingly delayed demanding—because of ..

Farmers said rice smuggling could imperil President Aquino’s rice self-sufficiency goal this year if this is not stopped. According to Abono Party-L..

In its quest for industrialization, the postwar Philippine economy adopted a complex array of protective policies through high tariffs, quantitative r..

President Benigno Aquino III declared 2013 the National Year of Rice to intensify the campaign to achieve rice self-sufficiency this year, despite war..

A study of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports the idea of instituting framework that would allow different governments in the region to coordi..

A government think tank said the country should no longer seek to extend the protectionist policy on rice through the quantitative restriction sche..

The Philippines should no longer seek an extension of the special protection on rice traded under the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to a s..

The Philippines should negotiate for more beneficial tariffs for rice with the World Trade Organization instead of seeking to extend a protectionist p..