One of the government’s major components in its poverty alleviation strategy is agrarian reform. While a number of reports have been published on th..

The introduction of the concept of a personal equity and retirement account through house bills number 2827, 28, 192, 1665, 1757 and 2648 has raised c..

For a long time, the command-and-control approach has been in used in the Philippines as evidenced by the decreed minimum parameter for the acidity le..

This issue identifies the best practices in maritime and nursing institutions in the APEC region to know where we stand. It also helps determine the c..

Managing Urbanization Under a Decentralized Governance Framework (Volume 1) is the first of two volumes on urban management. It documents the urbaniza..

Managing Urbanization Under a Decentralized Governance Framework (Volume 2) is a companion piece to Volume 1, which offers the institutional deta..

The study reviews small-scale gold mining in the Philippines and assesses economically mercury pollution and other development problems of the industr..

This paper examines the housing consumption pattern of Philippine households. Two basic issues are examined: one, how is housing demand associated wit..

After more than three decades of protectionism, the Philippines is now shifting toward a more open economy through liberalization, deregulation, and p..

This paper attempts to analyze governance systems in Southeast Asia and proposes some policy suggestions that can improve governance practices in the..

Criticism against large-scale macroeconometric models built in the tradition of the Cowles Commission approach began to mount in the late 1960s. These..

The country’s central bank has a profound impact on the lives of all residents in the country. This paper attempted to put some policy issues on cen..

Various indicators (e.g., VAT-to-GNP ratio, VAT evasion rate) suggest that problems in VAT administration have not only persisted during the 1990s but..

The recent spate of banking and currency crises has underscored the need to develop early warning systems. These are based on economic indicators of v..

The persistence of serious natural resource depletion and environmental degradation means that much remains to be done years into the implementation o..