The development of the Philippine automotive parts and components sector is critical to the automotive assembly industry. The availability of competit..

Nontariff measures are everywhere vilified for preventing exports, especially of agriculture, from developing countries. Philippine exporters seem to ..

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to income poverty are developed using..

This paper looks at the issue of reforming financial regulatory structures from the New Institutional Economics perspective. In particular, it examine..

This Notes calls for the need to regularly come up with household vulnerability measurements and trends in the Philippines, in addition to official po..

Has land ownership distribution in the Philippines improved as a result of the land reform program instituted in the country? Not quite, this Policy N..

Almost three years after the government launched two hunger-mitigation initiatives--the Food-for-School and Tindahan Natin programs--questions are bei..

When the GATT and the WTO effectively managed to bring down world tariffs on goods, free trade could have ideally been close at hand. However, in plac..

This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing a cross-sectional analysis of ..

In the past few years, the government has developed and installed a unique model of performance-based budgeting known as the Organizational Performanc..

This paper presents some of the preliminary results and findings of an ongoing study jointly conducted by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Ce..

This study aims to characterize and analyze the various contractual arrangements in selected agricultural commodities in parts of Central and Northern..

Economists have begun the quest for explanations of contractual choices in developing countries and especially for pervasiveness of informal credit an..

This paper aims to analyze how contracts are determined and modified given diverse agricultural settings and to examine the implications of these chan..

Contract growing has been defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms under forward agreements, usually at predeterm..