This paper attempted to test whether efficient cooperative rural banks (CRBs) have a better control of their agency costs. We used two different conce..

Has foreign entry indeed made domestic banks more efficient? Unite's and Sullivan's study, based on a sample of 16 expanded commercial banks (ECBs) an..

Is the Philippines ready to face foreign competition in the financial sector? Does it have enough supply of professionals who are capable of meeting t..

This book is a compilation of four studies funded by the Philippine APEC Study Center Network (PASCN) under its Thesis and Dissertation Assistance Pro..

This study presents an evaluation of the President’s Budget for 2003. First, it shows that the fiscal targets set out in the administration’s Budg..

This Policy Notes documents the experience of Lantapan, a watershed community in Bukidnon, where data collected by a community-based group to monitor ..

Despite the long list of policy instruments adopted by the Philippine government through the years to improve the country's housing situation, very li..

Almost every country has its own set of domestic regulations that determine how easy or difficult it is to pursue a freer movement in the trade of ser..

With the continuing deterioration of the Philippine government's fiscal position in the past few years, it is important to arrest the undeterred contr..

Good policymaking is not totally dependent on good policymakers. A large part of the process depends on the quality of data and information made acces..

Shelter is one of man's basic needs. Through generations, man has sought shelter in various forms to protect himself from the elements. But shelter ha..

Pointing out that fiscal incentives have costs that must be compensated by net benefits to society, this Policy Notes recommends a revisit of the gove..

Economic growth and environmental damage are associated, but the relationship is neither linear nor even monotonic. The nature of the growth-environme..

This paper describes the forces that have come to bear on the shaping of food security policy in the Philippines in recent years, and the government's..

After 27 years of existence, the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) is considered one of the longest running journals in the country. First publi..