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Volume 48, Number 1

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Philippine Journal of Development. The first semester issue celebrates this...

Volume 48, Number 2

This closing issue of the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD)’s 50th anniversary features a retrospective article by Jan Carlo Punongbayan...

Volume 36, Number 1

This issue explores key economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippine economy. One study examines the shift from constant 1985...

Volume 21, Numbers 1 and 2

This issue presents analyses on sociology, economic policies, gender studies, and sustainable development, offering insights into the evolving landscape of...

Volume 33, Numbers 1 and 2

This special issue of the Philippine Journal of Development honors Professor Alejandro N. Herrin for his extensive contributions to research...

The Enviromental Impact of Economic Cycles

The rapid economic expansion experienced by the ASEAN region has been dampened by the onset of economic crisis. In the...

The 1981-85 Tariff Changes and Effective Protection of Manufacturing Industries

This article assesses the impact of the ongoing tariff reform on effective protection rate (EPR) in the manufacturing sector given...

Toward a Major Revamp of the System of Establishment Enquiries

Assessment of the Philippine industrial statistics reveals data collection and processing problems that greatly impact on the timeliness and quality...

Impact Assessment and Project Development: An Overview

This paper provides a background for the reports produced on a nine-month training and application program designed to encourage the...

An Impact Analysis of the Forest Occupancy Management Project: Doña Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic...

The Fishermen’s Village: A Case Study of a Bagong Lipunan Improvement of Sites and Services Project in Bago Aplaya, Talomo, Davao City

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic...

The Impact of Tapayan Communal Irrigation System

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic...

A Study of the Impact of the Phividec Industrial Estate

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic...

The Impact of Rural Roads

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic...

The Rate Policy of Davao City Water District: A Case Study

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic...

Impact Analysis of a Small-Scale Irrigation Project in Manicahan District, Zamboanga City

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic...

The Impact of the Cagayan de Oro Port Development Project on Skilled and Unskilled Port Labor Employment

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic...

An Impact Assessment Report on the Multiple-Cropping Project (KABSAKA), Sta. Barbara, Iloilo

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic...

The Effects of Small Farm Mechanization on Employment and Output in Selected Rice-Growing Areas in Nueva Ecija, Philippines

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the "Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

Changes in Harvesting-Threshing Arrangements and Landless Laborers

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

Comparative Evaluation of Tractor and Carabao Use in Rice Land Preparation, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, 1980

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

The Private and Social Profitability of Mechanical Threshing

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

The Impact of Mechanization on Agricultural Production in Selected Villages of Nueva Ecija

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

Effects of Agricultural Mechanization on Farm Income Patterns

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

A History of Credit Programs Supporting Agricultural Mechanization in the Philippines

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

Financial Liberalization: What Have We Learnt?

This article attempts to study the Philippine experience with financial liberalization. In particular, it examines the impact of interest rate...

Economic and Social Impact Analysis of an Upland Development Project in Nueva Ecija, Philipines

This article documents the following objective: the processes through which pilot agro-forestation development projects (AFDPs) implementors seek to achieve their...

Impact Multiplier Policy Models for the Agricultural Sector: An Application to India

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños...

The Philippines: External Shocks, Adjustment Policies and Impact on Selected Development Concerns, 1973-1985

With the objective of designing and implementing more effective policies and programs in the light of external shocks, this paper...

Technical Change and the Structure of Informal Credit Markets in Philippine Agriculture

The role of informal credit markets in the promotion of new technology has become significant given the shortcomings of the...

A Macroeconomic Overview of Public Enterprise in the Philippines, 1975-84

This paper provides an overview of the macroeconomic role and impact of Philippine public enterprises. In particular, it deals with...

The On-Site and Downstream Costs of Soil Erosion in the Magat and Pantabangan Watersheds

This article report is a condensed version of “The On-Site and Downstream Costs of Soil Erosion,” PIDS Technical Report 87-04...

Funds Transfer Operations: Boon or Bane to the Viability of Rural Financial Intermediaries?

As far as the policies are concerned, the government has been successful in reversing the flow of loanable funds in...

EC 1992: Its Impact on Trade and Investment in the Philippines

One of the recent European developments is the plan of creating a single market implying the removal of obstacles to...

Impact of Public Policies on Rural Informal Credit Markets in the Philippines: Synthesis of Survey Results and Lessons for Policy

In the nonperformance of the formal financial sector to cater to the needs of some groups, informal measures have been...

IMF Stabilization Program and Economic Growth: The Case of the Philippines

The beginning of 1970s has witnessed the country’s political and economic predicament. To address these, the 1989 government has succumbed...

The Impact of Regulations on Municipal Bond Performance and Prospects in the Philippines

This article analyzes the capacity of LGUs to issue securities under the regulatory framework offered by PD 752 and the...

Liberalization in Directed Credit Programs for SMEs

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

The Impact of Technical Change on Rural Labor Markets in the Philippines

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

An Evaluation of the Home Consumption Value System

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

A Retreat from the Ideal: Reflections on a Frustrated Attempt to Study a Social Phenomenon the Natural Science Way

To provide Filipino social scientists an opportunity to design their own methodology for the analysis of socioeconomic impacts of a...

Policy Researchers and Policymakers: Never the Twain Shall Meet?

The 1980s have seen the heavy emphasis on economic policymaking. As such, equal emphasis has also been bestowed to the...

GATT-UR and Philippine Agriculture: Facts and Fallacies

GATT-UR provisions on agriculture have been most controversial. Its ratification depends on the establishment of adequate “safety nets” to protect...

Policy-Based Lending Programs in the Philippines

Despite deregulation of the financial markets such as liberalization of foreign bank entry and branching, the government continues to directly...

Population, Heath and Women

There are a number of issues regarding women’s health, women’s reproductive behavior, fertility impact of reproductive health programs and the...

Monitoring Systems for MIMAP

Due to stabilization and structural adjustment policies, it is imperative to learn more about its impacts. Given a good database,...

A Simulation of the Macroeconomic Impact of ODA with the Debt Factor: The Philippine Experience

Foreign aid has always been treated as “cheap mons.” In the past, aid studies almost always implicitly assumed that the...

International Labor Migration and Its Implications in the APEC Region

This paper identifies some of the key issues confronting the Asia-Pacific member-economies that arise from the discussions in the APEC...

Macroeconomic Impact of a Tariff Reduction: A Three-Gap Analysis with Model Simulations

Using a three-gap model, it can be shown that a reduction in the tariff level will lead to an unambiguous...

Effects of the AFTA-CEPT Scheme on Philippine Manufacturing Industries

Under the Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) scheme of the ASEAN free trade, tariffs on ASEAN products will be progressively...

Simulating the Effects of GATT-UR/WTO on the Philippine Economy

The GATT/WTO may affect the Philippine economy in three ways: through changes in tariff structure resulting from the country’s commitment...

Simulating the Impact of Macroeconomic Policy Changes on Macronutrient Availability in Households

This study estimates a system of food demand equations utilizing nationally representative survey data. These estimates are then used to...

U.S. Investors’ Response to Philippine Capital Market Liberalization: Evidence from the First Philippine Fund

This paper investigates the impact of liberalization of international investment restrictions in the Philippines on the discounts of the First...

Valuation of Forest Resources in Watershed Areas: Selected Applications in Makiling Forest Reserve

The valuation of resources found in the watershed area is important in assessing the impacts of changes in the watershed....

A Study on the Impact of Climate Variability/Change on Water Resources in the Philippines

This paper presents an effort toward a better understanding of the potential impact of climate variability and change on the...

Environmental Impact of Trade Policy Reforms on Pollution Intensity

The paper attempts to provide a theoretical analysis as well as some indicators of the linkage between trade policy and...

Impact of Agrarian Reform on Poverty

Using panel data from about 1,500 farm households and estimating from a logit model, the study shows that agrarian reform...

Growth Models, Development Planning, and Implementation in the Philippines

Has Philippine development planning benefited from the wisdom, if any, of economic growth theory? In this article, the author discusses...

An Analysis of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in East Asia

This article makes an attempt to uncover and explain the linkages between monetary policy and growth, using the cases of...

Analyzing the Impact of Trade Reforms on Welfare and Income Distribution Using a CGE Framework: the Case of the Philippines

Trade liberalization--particularly tariff reduction, which is the focus of this paper--triggers changes in both sectoral price ratios and domestic-foreign price...

Perceptions of Fishermen Households on the Long-Term Impact of Coastal Resources Management in Panguil Bay

Coastal resources management (CRM) has flourished as a management approach for attaining a more sustainable form of economic development in...

A Better Start in Life: Evaluation Results from an Early Childhood Development Program

Informed by a growing body of research showing that investments in early childhood health, nutrition, and cognitive and psychosocial development...

Contagion Effects of the Asian Crisis, Policy Responses and their Social Implications

This paper looks at the contagion effects of the Asian crisis on the Philippine economy, the policy responses, and their...

A Note on the Competitiveness Debate

This article deals with the concept of competitiveness. Competitiveness is technically a firm-level concept. However, it is oftentimes extended to...

An Empirical Analysis on the Tradeoff between Schooling and Child Labor in the Philippines

Does the prevalence of child work or child labor encumber on the country's economic growth and development? This paper looks...

Decentralization of Governance and Financing of Public Roads in the Philippines in the 1990s

A major theoretical as well as political approach to transport infrastructure investment and management is the idea that such services...

Impact of Children on Household Savings in the Philippines

Household savings are important indicators of family welfare, not only in terms of a household's investment and income generation prospects,...

Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the...

Can Imports Discipline Collusive Firms?: The Case of the Philippine Cement Industry

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of...

Toward Measuring Household Vulnerability to Income Poverty in the Philippines

The measurement of vulnerability, as in the probability that a household becomes poor, is concomitant to the analysis of poverty....

International Remittances and Family Expenditure Patterns: the Philippines’ Case

This paper examines the influence of overseas remittances to patterns of family expenditures in the Philippines using a matched dataset...

El Nino Southern Oscillation in the Philippines: Impacts, Forecasts, and Risk Management

The climate of the Philippines is highly influenced by the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). El Nino is associated with...

Factors Affecting Use or Nonuse of Free Trade Agreements in the Philippines

Within East Asia, the outward-oriented Philippine economy is a latecomer to using free trade agreements (FTAs) as a trade policy...

Impact of the Rice Trade Policy Reforms on Household Welfare in the Philippines

The effects of rice trade policy reforms on household welfare, as indicated by changes in consumer and producer prices, are...

Population Growth and Economic Development: Empirical Evidence from the Philippines

Various concerns have been expressed about the ability of the world economy to sustain the ever-expanding world population. This paper...

Estimating Total Factor Productivity Growth from the Input-Output Table: An Illustration in the Poultry Sector of the Philippines

The overall objective of the paper is to demonstrate how the input-output table can be used to calculate total factor...

Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN: Thailand (Immigration)

This paper aims to review the policies on international migration in Thailand and discuss difficulties in implementation. Today, Thailand is...

Different Streams, Different Needs and Impacts: Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN - Thailand (Emigration)

For decades, Thailand has had a strong labor market in both supplying and demanding labor resources. Since the 1970s, Thailand...

Foreign Labor in Singapore: Rationale, Policies, Impacts, and Issues

Singapore has one of the most open economies in Asia in terms of trade, capital inflows, and foreign labor inflows....

Irregular Migrants and the Law

This paper examines Malaysia`s policy on irregular migrants and its implementation, and discusses its impact. A survey and interview covering...

Managing International Labor Migration: The Philippine Experience

This paper reviews the Philippine international labor migration management infrastructure using the Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) framework. Thirty years of...

Migration Outflow and Remittance Patterns in Indonesia: National as well as Subnational Perspectives

The article compares and contrasts the scale and composition of workers` outflow and remittance flow from 1994 to 2012 at...

The Impact of Trade Liberalization and Economic Integration on the Logistics Industry: Maritime Transport and Freight Forwarders

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint targets an ASEAN single market in 2015. This is an ambitious reform agenda that...

SME Development: Narrowing the Development Gap in the ASEAN Economic Community

This paper evaluates the implementation of the 2010—2015 ASEAN Strategic Action Plan for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Development and...

Implications of a Philippines-United States FTA on Trade in Goods: An Indicator Approach Using the Sussex Framework

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a regional free trade agreement (FTA) initiated by the United States (US) and is presently...

Employment Generation Potential of the Rice Value Chain: The Case of Mlang, North Cotabato in Mindanao

This paper aims to examine the employment generation potential of the rice value chain. It analyzes the issues in the...

Can Cheap Oil Hurt Net Importers? Evidence from the Philippines

Conventional wisdom suggests that oil price increases have a negative effect on the output of oil-importing countries. This is grounded...

Economic Impact of Typhoon Ondoy in Pasig and Marikina Cities Using a Multiweek CGE Model Analysis

The adverse effects of extreme flooding caused by Typhoon Ondoy in Pasig and Marikina Cities in 2009 are significant. This...

Social Protection and Demand for Health Care among Children in the Philippines

The Philippines has recently introduced two distinct but related large-scale social protection programs that, first, provide conditional cash transfers to...

Impact of Foreign Linkages on Innovation Activity of Manufacturing Firms in CALABARZON

This study assesses the impact of foreign linkages on knowledge transfer and innovation of Philippine manufacturing firms in CALABARZON region....

The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement, a Decade After: Evaluating the Impact on Philippine Trade

The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), the first bilateral FTA that the Philippines entered into, aims to facilitate and promote...

Analyzing the Diversity and Inclusivity of Philippine Exports to the European Union Under the GSP+

This study assesses the diversity and inclusivity of Philippine export activities to the European Union (EU) amid the country’s status...

Learning from Stories Behind Unexpected Results: A Qualitative Follow-up Study on the Third Impact Evaluation of 4Ps

This study examines the results of the third wave impact evaluation (IE3) of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program...

HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Sexual Behaviors of Female Young Adults in the Philippines

The impact of sex education on various behavioral outcomes has been studied in the literature. However, these studies...

Assessing Policy Impacts in Digital Services Trade: Implications for the Philippines

Rapid digitalization has become integral to the global economy, connecting markets and introducing new modes of production and...

Does Similarity in Philippine Free Trade Agreements Matter in Trade?

This study proposes using text-of-trade analysis to understand the design of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement and the...

The Philippine Journal of Development in the Early 21st Century (2002–2023)

As the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024, this paper reviews all articles...

Simulating COVID-19 Impacts on Poverty and the Middle-Income Class in the Philippines: Implications for Inclusive Growth

This study uses simulation techniques to estimate the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty rates and...

Development Intervention and Armed Conflict: Evaluating the PAMANA Program in Davao Region

The Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) program plays a crucial role in addressing the root causes of conflict...

Analyzing Filipinos’ Openness to Trade Partnerships and Globalization Using Sentiment Analysis

This paper examines Filipinos’ openness to globalization and trade partnerships using text mining and sentiment analysis to assess...