It is generally known that non-financial institutions comprise an important source of credit for rural borrowers. Not only do informal loans involve l..

Analysis of the performance of rural, private commercial and private development banks indicates that while private commercial banks has done intensiv..

The last decade has witnessed a very active government expenditure program in the Philippines. Although the country’s national government expenditur..

Utilizing tax buoyancy and tax elasticity, this study evaluates the performance of the Philippine tax system from the perspective of tax mobili..

This paper surveys existing literature and research studies on the issues of rural finance. Moreover, the paper reviews the various schools of ..

Utilizing data on MERALCO residential consumers, this paper reveals that residential demand for electricity is responsive to its own price, the price..

This paper introduces the concept of non-homogeneity of expectations (NHE) among investors on the parameters of the probability distribution o..

Utilizing data from surveys conducted in Albay, Camarines Sur and Sorsogon, this paper shows that a decline in farm income with the shift of wo..

A thorough understanding of the process in securing import licenses is important. One, the procedure varies according to the requirements of the imple..

This paper provides a historical backdrop on export tax and premium duty that are imposed on the country’s export commodities such as minerals, coco..

Industrial peace remains to be an elusive dream for Philippine industry especially in the decade of the 1970s and 1980s. In general, the main ..

External debt has always been a problem of the Philippine fiscal managers. With the Aquino government in place, debt problem becomes a burning..

No other issue since EDSA Revolution has so bitterly polarized the Philippine society than the proposed agrarian reform program. The landless,..

The sensitive issue of poverty made the past regime reluctant to make official estimates of poverty incidence. At best, there have been vague ..

Media has acquired a major role in the social and political change. In this issue, Mr. Armando Doronilla provides an interesting analysis of the vari..