To evaluate the effectiveness of approaches to improve policies toward the development of small and medium enterprises, this article assesses the effi..

Analysis of micro-level data confirms the effects of differential technical change on both the demand and the supply side of rural labor markets. Tech..

Based largely on the work of Funke and Hall, estimation results indicate non-causality between money and price level attributed to the interplay of fa..

Housing developments have been hampered by exorbitantly priced land specifically in the cities. The 1991 housing survey show that Metro Manila househo..

The Philippines has been one among the few that still adheres to the home consumption valuation (HCV), a system that, according to many importers, res..

Early 1980s has seen series of reforms in the Philippine financial system having improved financial intermediation as the general objective. This pape..

From a theoretical standpoint, the question has to be asked whether or not the census should retain its present definition of urban areas. There is a ..

Usual indicators of intertemporal rural performance are technically flawed mainly because of the “shifting” of the physical area of the rural sec..

This volume provides a comprehensive view of regional development in the Philippines. It includes a review of the attempts to promote balanced region..

In capital-starved nations, the role of foreign assistance to fund development programs and projects is considered critical to the success of t..

In November 1993, the PIDS has launched the PIDS Review and Outlook of the Philippine Economy (PROPE) as part of its continuing analysis of the situa..

The reports included in this second issue of the Economic Outlook Series have been presented at the PIDS annual roundtable discussion. The papers con..

The Ramos administration has inherited an economy that is in a state of recession. Despite this discouraging condition, this paper argues that this ne..

Credit is important because economic agents in the agriculture sector who are constrained by liquidity problems may produce sub-optimal outputs. This ..