This article empirically analyzes the relationship between unemployment rate and inflation rate in the Philippines over the period 1980-2006. The nega..

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberaliza..

This paper looks at the emerging issues and problems in promoting competition policy and coordinating its implementation under regional arrangements, ..

Dependent population is defined as that part of the population that does not work and relies on others for the goods and services they consume. In pra..

During the past five years or so, most East Asian economies including the Philippines experienced a rising level of foreign exchange reserves and rapi..

Economics is an important component of social science instruction in secondary level education in the Philippines. This paper aims to trace the evolut..

This paper reports on the impact evaluation study of the Rural Microenterprise Finance Project (RMFP) in the Philippines. RMFP aimed to support effort..

The main objective of the paper is to explore possible institutional arrangements among the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) implementing ..

The objective of this paper is to present the land administration and management (LAM) issues on CARP and determine the necessary institutional reform..

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In thi..

Benefit incidence analysis (BIA) is a tool used to assess how tax policy or government subsidy affects the distribution of welfare in the population. ..

Have age profiles of consumption and labor income in the Philippines changed from 1994 to 2002? What are the implications of the changes observed in t..

A country’s population consists of persons at different ages and stages of their economic lifecycle. Those in the population that are incurring life..

In the relatively new body of ideas dubbed “new economic geography” and “spatial economics,” we find insights on the potentials of industrial ..

The economic reform process in the Philippines was accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s. The reforms were found to have yielded positive results in term..