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Volume 8, Numbers 1 and 2
This issue features six papers examining critical economic and social policies in the Philippines. The first article assesses...
Volume 10, Number 1
This issue presents studies on economic growth, industrial development, and banking in the Philippines. One paper examines postwar economic growth...
Volume 11, Number 1
This issue presents key findings from a nine-month training and application program under the Economic and Social Impact Analysis/Women in...
Volume 11, Number 2
This issue explores critical economic and financial concerns affecting the Philippines. The studies presented offer data-driven insights that...
Volume 12, Number 1
This issue presents a comprehensive analysis of small farm mechanization in the Philippines, based on findings from a...
Volume 12, Number 2
This issue explores key economic and trade dynamics shaping the Philippine economy, covering topics such as bilateral trade,...
Volume 13, Numbers 1 and 2
This issue presents a collection of studies, including one from the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis...
Volume 14, Number 1
This issue presents analyses of economic challenges in developing countries, covering financial management, taxation, trade, and education. A...
Volume 14, Number 2
This issue explores key economic and financial concerns in the Philippines, with studies examining monetary policy, public enterprises,...
Volume 15, Number 1
This issue presents critical studies on forestry, soil erosion, migration, and economic impacts of upland resource management in...
Volume 15, Number 2
This issue delves into key economic challenges and policy considerations in the Philippines, covering topics such as balance...
Volume 16, Number 1
This issue examines the complexities of rural financial markets in the Philippines, highlighting the challenges faced by farmers,...
Volume 16, Number 2
This issue is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines\" jointly sponsored by PIDS...
Volume 17, Number 1
This issue presents a set of studies examining key economic sectors and policy frameworks in the Philippines. One...
Volume 17, Number 2
This issue explores key economic themes, from household savings behavior to macroeconomic policies and industry evaluations, offering insights...
Volume 18, Number 1
This issue presents a range of studies on macroeconomic frameworks, trade policies, financial systems, and policy interventions affecting...
Volume 19, Number 1
This issue examines critical issues in fiscal policy, poverty measurement, and financial system analysis in the Philippines. It...
Volume 19, Number 2
This issue explores key economic and financial issues affecting income distribution, local governance, and rural development in the...
Volume 20, Number 1
This issue presents economic analyses on small and medium enterprise (SME) development, rural labor dynamics, monetary policy, and...
Volume 20, Number 2
This issue examines key economic and policy issues affecting the Philippines, including trade valuation systems, international credit perceptions,...
Volume 24, Number 2
This issue explores the economic and environmental challenges facing the Philippines, covering trade liberalization, sustainable forestry, poverty assessment,...
Volume 25, Number 1
This issue examines critical economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippines, focusing on financial sector reforms, foreign direct...
Volume 25, Number 2
This issue explores key economic and policy challenges in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Metro Cebu’s water management, investment...
Volume 26, Number 1
This issue explores key economic and policy challenges in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Metro Cebu’s water...
Volume 26, Number 2
This issue presents a comprehensive examination of watershed management, conservation efforts, and environmental policy in the Philippines. It...
Volume 27, Number 2
This issue explores critical economic and industrial challenges facing the Philippines, from the competitiveness of the information technology...
Volume 28, Number 1
This issue explores key economic and policy challenges in the Philippines, ranging from biotechnology’s role in agriculture to...
Volume 29, Number 1
This issue explores the intersection of economic growth, environmental sustainability, and decentralized governance, with a focus on the...
Volume 29, Number 2
This issue examines critical economic and policy challenges shaping the country\'s growth and governance. It features an analysis...
Volume 30, Number 1
This issue examines critical economic policies and sectoral challenges shaping the country\'s growth. The volume opens with an...
Volume 30, Number 2
This issue presents critical discussions on key economic and policy challenges facing the Philippines. It examines the establishment of an...
Volume 31, Number 1
This issue presents in-depth analyses of key economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippines and Southeast Asia. One...
Volume 31, Number 2
This issue presents a diverse set of studies on trade, labor, infrastructure, and language policy, offering insights into...
Volume 32, Number 1
This issue presents empirical studies on economic policies, household welfare, and market dynamics in the Philippines and beyond....
Volume 32, Number 2
This issue features studies on household savings, fiscal decentralization, the informal economy, and e-governance, offering insights into key...
Volume 34, Number 1
This issue presents a diverse set of studies on critical economic and social issues affecting the Philippines. The...
Volume 34, Number 2
This issue explores key economic themes, including labor costs, export-led growth, poverty measurement, and education spending. The studies...
Volume 35, Number 1
This issue presents research on trade liberalization, economic vulnerability, aquaculture, and macroeconomic policy, offering valuable insights into their...
Volume 35, Number 2
This issue explores key economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippine economy. One study examines the shift from...
Volume 37, Number 1
This issue explores critical economic and policy challenges shaping agriculture, trade, environment, and development in the Philippines and...
Volume 37, Number 2
This issue delves into key economic and policy challenges shaping regional development, investment, poverty measurement, and productivity in...
Volume 36, Number 2 (Final Note from the Managing Editor)
In her final note for the PJD 2009 second semester issue, Ms. Jennifer Liguton bids farewell as the...
Volume 38, Numbers 1–2 (Special Volume on International Labor Migration)
Countries in the ASEAN region experience a wide range of problems in managing labor migration flows. There is...
Volume 39, Numbers 1–2 (Special Volume on ASEAN Economic Community)
This special volume of the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) is devoted to discussions and analyses of issues...
Volume 40, Numbers 1–2 (Special Volume on Health)
The Aquino Health Agenda of 2010 articulates succinctly the Philippine health sector's aim for universal health coverage. The agenda has...
Volumes 41–42, Numbers 1 and 2
This volume is significant for two reasons. First, it introduces the new Editorial Board members who will be...
Volume 43, Number 1
This volume consists of articles on agriculture, the oil industry, and telecommunications. The first article studies the employment...
Volume 43, Number 2
The second semester issue of the Philippine Journal of Development features articles on Typhoon Ondoy and the Trans-Pacific...
Volume 44, Number 1
This volume of the Philippine Journal of Development revisits some of the government policies specifically designed for those in the...
Volume 44, Number 2
This volume of the Philippine Journal of Development features articles on migration, performance and competitiveness of local small...
Volume 45, Number 1
This volume of the Philippine Journal of Development consists of articles on social housing, the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership...
Volume 45, Number 2
This issue of the Philippine Journal of Development contains articles on the Performance-Based Bonus (PBB), the Philippine water...
Volume 47, Number 1
This year’s first issue of the Philippine Journal of Development features articles on healthcare quality...
Volume 47, Number 2
The second semester issue of the Philippine Journal of Development contains articles on sexual education and behavior, the...
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 23, Number 2
This issue explores the complex interactions between population growth, urbanization, environmental sustainability, and economic development in the Philippines. A study...
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 “Turbulent World Economy” and Industrial Development Strategy in the Philippines
This article is presented before the 19th Annual Meeting of the Philippine Economic Society at the Manila Hotel on December...
Invention in Philippine Industry
This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics at the Philippine International Convention Center on December 13-14,...
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...
An Analysis of Fertilizer Policies in the Philippines
The Philippines does not have a comparative advantage in the domestic production of fertilizer. This is one of the thoughts...
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...
The 1979 Diary Family Income and Expenditure Survey: Experience and Preliminary Results
This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics on December 13-14, 1982. The 1979 Diary Family income...
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...
Import Smuggling in the Philippines: An Economic Analysis
This study attempts to generate an estimate of import smuggling using Philippine data on import trade. Through the development of...
Offshore Banking and the Philippine Economy
This article provides a background to the birth of offshore banking units (OBUs) in the Philippines, its operations and the...
A Review of Past, Present and Proposed Mechanization Strategies in the Philippines
This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...
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...
MA-IRRI Industrial Extension Program for Small Farm Equipment
This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...
Electrification and Regional Economic Development in the Philippines
This article empirically tests for the positive effects of household electrification on the Philippine provincial income levels. Results indicate that...
Indirect Tax Reform in the Philippines: A Complementary Measure to the Tariff Reform Program, 1979-1985
This study analyzes the effect of the interaction between domestic indirect taxes and tariff system to the market of particular...
Equity and Efficiency Tradeoffs in Philippine Tax Reforms
This study presents tax policymakers with a menu of alternative tax structures for the Philippines which will yield the best...
Factors Affecting the Choice of Location: A Survey of Foreign and Local Firms in the Philippines
This article explores the extent of the cross-national result on the Philippine firm level through a sample survey of 100...
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...
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 Structure of Rural Household Income and Its Implications on Rural Poverty in Bicol, Philippines
Against the background of weak agricultural sector and the resulting poverty in the rural sector, this study looks at the...
An Evaluation of the Cooperative System in the Philippines
The Philippine cooperative system has been characterized by success and failure. This paper explores the reasons for the circumstances, the...
Defense Spending and Economic Growth: Time-Series Evidence on Causality for the Philippines, 1956-82
This paper tests the causality issue between defense spending and economic growth in the Philippines. The results of the tests...
Population Pressure and Migration: Implications for Upland Development in the Philippines
This paper is based largely on the integrated summary report entitled “Population Pressure and Migration: Implications for Upland Development,” PIDS...
Review of Structural Adjustment in the Philippines
This article has been delivered during the Central Bank Diamond Jubilee celebration on November 21,1988. It reviews the issues of...
Tax Evasion in the Philippines, 1981-1985
From the administrative and policy perspective, determination of magnitude of tax evasion and an analysis of tax evasion levels are...
Capital Flight from the Philippines, 1962-1986
This paper presents quantitative measures of the annual flow and cumulative stock of capital flight from the Philippines from 1962-1986....
Thirty-Three Facts About Philippine Agricultural Credit
This paper is an edited and expanded version of PIDS Staff Paper 87-02. It provides a number of facts and...
Infant and Childhood Mortality Research in the Philippines: Review and Agenda
This article advocates for more focused research designs and the use of more complex causal models. Investigations of morbidity and...
Rural Deposit Mobilization in the Philippines, 1977-1986
Against the backdrop of rural financial markets, this article documents and describes Philippine rural deposit mobilization in view of the...
Concept Paper on Science and Technology
This article is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines" jointly sponsored by PIDS and DOST...
The Legal Framework for Science and Technology Development
This article is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines" jointly sponsored by PIDS and DOST...
Planning for Science and Technology
This article is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines" jointly sponsored by PIDS and DOST...
The Role of Academe in Science and Technology Utilization
This article is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines" jointly sponsored by PIDS and DOST...
Science and Technology Development and Promotion in the Private Sector: Some Issues and Recommendations for Policy Research
This article is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines" jointly sponsored by PIDS and DOST...
Health Policy Research and Development in the Philippines
In the hope to contribute to the exchange of ideas and experience regarding health research, this paper provides an overview...
The Textile Industry in the Philippines and Thailand: A Comparison
Comparison of the Philippines and Thailand textile industry in terms of output, export and TFP growth indicates a better performance...
Monetary Instruments and the Control of Liquidity in the Philippines: Focus on Open Market Operations
Monetary policies refer to the actions of central banks aimed to achieve macroeconomic stability and to influence financial factors such...
Comparative Saving Behavior of Rural and Urban Households in the Philippines
Marginal saving rates for the Philippine households are estimated, distinguishing between rural and urban households, by region and by income...
Forecasting the Money Multiplier in the Philippines
To forecast the Philippine money multiplier, this article utilizes Box-Jenkins Technique that suggests the use of simple autoregressive intermediate moving...
A Review of Fiscal Incentives for Exports in the Philippines
Stimulated by the success of the East Asian dragons, commitment on the design and administration of export promotion policies have...
Classifying the Economy into Traded or Nontraded Sectors
Cast within the framework of small open economy that periodically faces balance of payments crises, the theoretical model developed in...
A Macroeconomic Social Accounting Framework for the Philippines
The aggregate nature of the accounts of the social accounting method constructed for the Philippine economy has led to the...
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...
Economic Growth and Defense Spending: Evidence on Causality for Selected Asian Countries
An earlier version of this paper has been presented in 1989 at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in...
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...
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...
Money and Prices in the Philippines, 1981-1992: A Cointegration Analysis
Based largely on the work of Funke and Hall, estimation results indicate non-causality between money and price level attributed to...
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,...
Assessment of the Financial Market Reforms in the Philippines, 1980-1992
Early 1980s has seen series of reforms in the Philippine financial system having improved financial intermediation as the general objective....
Agricultural Growth and Rural Performance: A Philippine Perspective
Usual indicators of intertemporal rural performance are technically flawed mainly because of the “shifting” of the physical area of the...
Dynamics of Rural Development: Analytical and Policy Issues
This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the links among conceptual, empirical and policy issues relating to agricultural...
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...
Social Science Research on Reproductive Health in the Philippines
The accelerated increase in the world population has resulted in poverty, with women and children bearing the greatest burden. Hence,...
Adjusting to the New Trade and Environmental Paradigm: The Case of the Philippines
The story of the Philippine environment during the past two decades is one of growing stress and resource degradation that...
Visions for Philippines 2000: The Challenge of Economic Restructuring Toward Sustained Economic Growth
Within the context of “NIC-hood,” this paper advances that the country and the government should understand and situate the parameters...
Managing Surges in Capital Inflows: The Philippine Case
The Philippines is one of the countries in Southeast Asia that has experienced massive capital inflows. Being a latecomer in...
Modeling the Effects of the MFA Liberalization on Philippine Clothing Trade
Opinions about the Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) vary not only between importers and exporters but also within these groups depending on...
The Effectiveness of Export Promotion Policies in a General Equilibrium Framework: The Case of the Philippines
This study examines the general equilibrium effects of different export promotion policies on imports and production of importables and exportables....
Population-Development-Environment Modeling in the Philippines: A Review
This article surveys existing forecasting models in the Philippines and discusses several promising alternatives in the process of developing a...
Water Quality and Fisheries Issues Accompanying Population Growth in the Philippines
Fishing should be an employment of last resort. This article argues why through analysis of water quality and fisheries in...
Industrial Policy and the Environment: The Case of the Manufacturing Sector in Metro Cebu, Philippines
Some industries are relatively more harmful to the environment but industrialization has been a significant factor in Cebu’s environmental degradation....
An Assessment of the Capacity and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: The Philippine Case
Despite the government’s credit program approach, access of poor households to microfinancial services has remained limited. This paper explains the...
Poverty Assessment in the Philippines and Indonesia: A Methodological Comparison
Existing official poverty statistics cannot be directly utilized for cross-country comparison. This paper illustrates why. It presents an assessment of...
Reaching the Poor with Effective Microcredit: Evaluation of a Grameen Bank Replication in the Philippines
Credit provision for small and poor households has always been the major element of nongovernment organizations in alleviating poverty. Recently,...
Financial Reform and Development in the Philippines, 1980-1997: Imperatives, Performance and Challenges
This paper discusses financial reform and development in the Philippines during the past one and a half decades and the...
Policy Responses to Future Population Growth in the Philippines
This paper analyzes future population growth in terms of its contributions to growth of unwanted fertility, high desired family size...
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...
Assessment of Watershed Technologies
Dealing with various topics such as watershed classification, computer simulation and modeling and computer application in watershed research, this paper...
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...
R&D Gaps in the Philippines
Based on the chain of causality, R&D translates to innovation and to productivity/ technological progress, which ultimately leads to economic...
Competitiveness of the Philippine IT Industry: What Lies Ahead
This paper examines the competitiveness of the Philippine information technology (IT) industry vis-à-vis its emerging competitors and neighboring countries in...
An Analysis of the Utilization of Regional Fishing Ports in the Philippines
This paper investigates the issue of underutilization of Philippine regional fishing ports using secondary data from institutional resources and interviews...
Financing Rural Energy Services in the Philippines: Global Environment and People-Centered Development as Public Goods
Access to energy is a means to achieve economic development. Both environmental concerns and the global privatization trends have fueled...
Agricultural Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges for the Philippines
Developing countries, still heavily dependent on agriculture, must now harness biotechnology to modernize agricultural production and diversify product outputs. The...
Liberalization and Regional Integration: The Philippines’ Strategy for Global Competitiveness
The paper examines the policies pursued by the Philippines in response to the increasing economic integration and interdependence of nations...
Dollarization: Concepts and Implications for Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in the Philippines
Currency substitution implies the greater share of foreign currency in the asset holdings of domestic residents. Dollarization is the complete...
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...
Devolution of Environmental and Natural Resource Management in the Philippines: Analytical and Policy Issues
This paper is an assessment of the constraints and opportunities for capturing the gains from the devolution of environmental and...
Does Nonfarm Job Growth Encourage or Retard Soil Conservation in Philippine Uplands?
If land-degrading agricultural intensification in uplands is driven by labor migration, what will be the effect of nonfarm employment growth?...
Linking Economic Policy and Environmental Outcomes at a Watershed Scale
Do the most promising policies to promote sustainable upland farming originate at the local or national level? Will coordination of...
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...
The Role of PIDS and Its Contribution to Research and Policymaking in the Philippines
Established in 1977, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has been an important research resource in the country. It...
Tax Administration Reform: (Semi)Autonomous Revenue Authority, Anyone?
This article discusses the issue of establishing, as many countries have, an independent revenue authority. Such organizations are conventionally and...
Population and Poverty: A Review of the Links, Evidence and Implications for the Philippines
The article reviews trends in population and poverty, compares population and development between the Philippines and Thailand over the last...
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...
Local Public Finance in the Philippines: Lessons in Autonomy and Accountability
Fifteen years into the implementation of the Local Government Code of 1991, now is an opportune time to assess how...
PJD 2006 Special Volume in Honor of Alejandro N. Herrin - Introduction
This special issue of the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) is dedicated to Professor Alejandro N. Herrin in recognition of...
Migration and the Rural-Urban Continuum: Evidence from Bukidnon, Philippines
This paper explores the heterogeneity of the migrant experience using the Bukidnon Panel Survey, which follows up 448 families in...
Robust Determinants of Income Growth in the Philippines
This paper studies the relationship between population dynamics and income growth in the Philippines using data from 74 provinces for...
Exploring Household Saving and Consumption-Smoothing in the Philippines
This paper explores whether or not the saving behavior of Filipino households fits the life-cycle hypothesis. Using pseudo-panels, which are...
Poverty, Fertility Preferences, and Family Planning Practices in the Philippines
This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences, and family planning practices in the Philippines using the series...
The National Health Accounts of the Philippines: Continuing Development and New Findings
For more than a decade now, the national health accounts (NHA) of the Philippines has been providing data that are...
Social Health Insurance for the Poor Programs of the Philippines and Vietnam
This paper compares the design features and implementation of the social health insurance (SHI) for the poor programs of the...
A Review of High School Economics in the Philippines: 1902-2005
Economics is an important component of social science instruction in secondary level education in the Philippines. This paper aims to...
Philippine-American Relations Beyond the Bases
This article has been delivered by the author for the 1988 Florence Macaulay Distinguished Lecture on Asia and the Pacific...
An Empirical Investigation of Bankers' Perceptions of Country Creditworthiness
Utilizing time-wise autoregressive model to investigate the perception of the international community on the Philippines, which has suffered from debt...
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...
Development and the Upland Resource Base: Economic and Policy Context, and Lessons from a Philippine Watershed
Economic growth and environmental damage are associated, but the relationship is neither linear nor even monotonic. The nature of the...
The Globalization of Food Security: Rice Policy Reforms in the Philippines
This paper describes the forces that have come to bear on the shaping of food security policy in the Philippines...
The Philippine Journal of Development: Its Beginning and Evolution
This paper traces the beginning and evolution of the Philippine Journal of Development--from its conception as a technical journal of...
Estimating Industry Benchmarks for the Value-Added Tax
In this article, the author outlines the coverage and structure of the Philippines' value-added tax (VAT) on goods and services...
Technical Change, Factor Bias and Input Adjustments: Panel Data Evidence from Irrigated Rice Production in Southern Palawan, Philippines
Approximately 90 percent of the world's production and consumption of rice occurs in Asia, and regional demand is projected to...
Toward a Cognitive Perspective on Transition
The author carries out an interesting and uncommon analysis of economic transition and change in terms of human consciousness, perception,...
China's WTO Entry: Effects on Its Economy and Implications for the Philippines
This paper investigates the implications of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001 for the Philippines based...
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...
Who Are Opposed to Free Trade in the Philippines?
In a democratic country, economic policies succeed or fail depending on the political support they receive. Open trade policies that...
Children and the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Parents in the Philippines
This paper demonstrates how family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of...
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,...
E-governance at the Local Government Level in the Philippines: An Assessment of City Government Websites
The application of information and communication technology for improving governance by enhancing government's role in service delivery, public administration, and...
Who Benefits from the Food-for-School Program and Tindahan Natin Program: Lessons in Targeting
The prevalence of hunger in the Philippines prompted the government to launch its hunger mitigation initiative in November 2005. Such...
Firm-Level Determinants of Export Performance: Evidence from the Philippines
The paper determines the factors affecting the export performance of firms in three main manufacturing sectors in the Philippines. Specifically,...
A Cautionary Note on the Interpretation of Unit Labor Costs as an Indicator of Competitiveness, with Reference to the Philippines
This note shows that unit labor costs, the most widely used measure of competitiveness, are equivalent to the labor share...
Econometric Analysis of the Export-led Growth Hypothesis: Evidence for BIMP-EAGA Countries
This paper employs several econometric methods to test the validity of the "export-led growth" hypothesis in three BIMP-EAGA countries, i.e.,...
A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines
How poor are participants of development projects in the Philippines? This paper uses the 2002 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey to...
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....
Fishpen and Fischcage Culture in Laguna de Bay: Status, Economic Importance, and the Relative Severity of Problems Affecting its Practice
This paper reviews the status of fishpen and fishcage culture in Laguna de Bay, with emphasis on its economic importance...
Unemployment and Inflation in the Philippines: New Evidence from Vector Error Correction Model
This article empirically analyzes the relationship between unemployment rate and inflation rate in the Philippines over the period 1980-2006. The...
Avoiding Anomalies of Gross Domestic Product in Constant Prices by Conversion to Chained Prices
Changing the base year (1985) of Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) in constant prices could change the growth rate and...
Are there Regional Variations in the Utilization of Maternal and Child Care Services across Income Groups?
While the national average for maternal and child health services utilization shows improvement, the Philippines is yet to achieve the...
Agricultural Diversification and the Fruits and Vegetables Subsector: Policy Issues and Development Constraints in the Philippines
Fruits and vegetables comprise a large and dynamic subsector within Philippine agriculture. However, the country`s agricultural development strategy continues to...
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...
Policy Options for Rice and Corn Farmers in the Face of Seasonal Climate Variability
In the face of seasonal climate variability, the smallholder farmers, particularly those in rural communities, are among the most adversely...
Incorporating Regional Rice Production Models in a Simulation Model of Rice Importation: a Discrete Stochastic Programming Approach
In the Philippines, importation has remained as one of the most feasible options for the government to meet the growing...
Corn Farmers` Decisionmaking Based on Seasonal Climate Forecasts
Although our ability to predict climate conditions has improved significantly, farmers` use of climate information and forecasts in farming decisions...
Risk-efficient Planting Schedules for Corn in Matalom, Leyte, Philippines
The study was conducted to identify risk-efficient cropping schedules for corn farmers in Matalom, Leyte, Philippines using stochastic dominance analysis...
Assessing the Value of Seasonal Climate Forecasts on Farm-level Corn Production through Simulation Modeling
Rainfall variability greatly influences corn production. Thus, a skillful forecast is potentially of value to the farmers because it could...
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...
Communicating and Using Seasonal Climate Forecasts: a Challenge Crossing National, Organizational, and Disciplinary Boundaries
The papers in this special issue come from the project "Bridging the gap between seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) and agricultural...
Labor Policies and Philippine Companies: Analysis of Survey Opinions
This paper analyzes the responses from a survey of Philippine companies concerning labor market policies, such as minimum wage-setting process,...
Do Barangays Really Matter in Local Services Delivery? Some Issues and Policy Options
This paper is borne out of the need to address the scarcity of evidence-based studies on barangay financing. It analyzes...
An Assessment of the Local Service Delivery of Potable Water in Dumaguete City and Selected Areas of Agusan del Sur Province
This paper assessed the local service delivery (LSD) of potable water in Dumaguete City and selected areas of Agusan del...
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...
A Review of Social Insurance in the Philippines
This paper aims to review and assess the protection afforded by the Social Security System (SSS) and the Government Service...
Social Capital and the Decision to Adopt New Technology among Rice Farmers in the Philippines
Conventional models predict that a rational farmer, given information of higher profits from a new technology relative to the old,...
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...
Addressing Land Degradation: Benefits, Costs, and Policy Directions
Land degradation in the Philippines is a serious environmental problem with long-term implications for the sustainability of agricultural production. Protection...
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...
Investigating the Presence of Regional Economic Growth Convergence in the Philippines Using Kalman Filter
This paper investigates the presence of stochastic and dynamic convergence in the 14 regional economies in the Philippines in terms...
Do FDI Inflows Have Positive Spillover Effects? The Case of the Philippine Manufacturing Industry
The experience of the Philippines shows that foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects are not automatically generated. Opening up the...
Profiling Poverty with Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines
Using data from the 2003 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and 2005 community-based monitoring system for a city, Multivariate Adaptive...
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: The Philippine Experience
This paper reviews the Philippine international labor migration management infrastructure using the Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) framework. Thirty years of...
Managing the ASEAN Economic Integration Process in the Philippines: An Assessment of Progress in Trade Liberalization and Facilitation
This paper is part of the Philippine study for the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint,...
Services Liberalization in the Philippines: A Capacity Needs Assessment for AEC 2015
The paper aims to assess and determine the capacity-building needs required to liberalize trade in services in the Philippines. Through...
AEC 2015: Challenges Affecting Labor Mobility and MRAs on Professional Services
The paper aims to identify the facilitating and deterring factors affecting the implementation of the ASEAN mutual recognition arrangements (MRAs)...
Investment Liberalization and Facilitation Toward AEC 2015
The paper examines the state of investment liberalization and facilitation in the Philippines and suggests policy measures to enable the...
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...
The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint: Implementation and Effectiveness Assessment for Philippine Agriculture
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint outlines the plan of countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to...
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...
AEC 2015: Issues and Challenges in Standards and Conformance
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint envisions the transformation of the ASEAN region into a single market and production base...
Analysis of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation's Individually Paying Program and Employed Program
The provision of social health insurance has been an increasingly popular mechanism for addressing financial barriers to health care in...
Sustainability of the National Government Premium Subsidy for Indigents
The national subsidy for indigent PhilHealth members identified under the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) began in...
Institutional Financing of Catastrophic Health Expenditures
Patients' financial protection is considered a key component of health systems and has been a consistent policy goal of the...
Analysis of Out-of-Pocket Expenditures in the Philippines
Health care remains inaccessible and inequitable for all, especially for the poor in the Philippines. Among the sources of health...
Prevalence of Philippine Prescribing, Dispensing, and Use Behavior in Relation to Generic Drugs and their Risk Factors
This study was designed to address the question of physicians' and drugstores' compliance with the provisions of the Generics Act...
Public-Private Partnership Options toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage in the Philippine Setting
The World Health Organization advocates universal health coverage so that all people can obtain the needed health services without suffering...
Health Care in Private Schools and Private Establishments in the Philippines
In 2012, there were about 4.5 million Filipinos attending private schools and an estimated 21.6 million employed by private establishments...
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...
Sustaining the Competitiveness of Philippine Services
Competitive services are necessary for attaining inclusive and sustainable growth. Although the Philippines has notably succeeded in developing several globally...
Stock Market Development in the Philippines: Past and Present
This paper explores the origins and development of the Philippine stock market. Specifically, it looks at the structural and regulatory...
Domestic Resource Cost in Philippine Agriculture: Measuring Global Competitiveness of Key Commodities
A well-known indicator of comparative advantage is domestic resource cost (DRC). This study provides updated estimates of DRC for major...
Health Accounts Estimates of the Philippines for CY 2012 Based on the 2011 System of Health Accounts
The System of Health Accounts (SHA) 2011 is the current international standard for health accounting. An expanded health accounts was...
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...
The Fertilizer Industry and Philippine Agriculture: Policies, Problems, and Priorities
The fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the 1970s to today's market-oriented regime. Government has...
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...
Philippine Telecommunications Laws and Regulations: A TPP Gap Analysis
This paper aims to promote competitive access for telecommunications providers. Among other things, it includes provisions for interconnection, access to...
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...
Legal and Policy Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Focus on Intellectual Property
As the Philippines participates in negotiations for new-generation free trade agreements (FTAs), it is crucial for the country to have...
The Philippines' Readiness for the TPP: Focus on Investor-State Dispute Settlement
While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has seen some rough sailing with the United States' withdrawal, it remains the acknowledged state...
The TPP Agreement and Government Procurement: Opportunities and Issues for the Philippines
This paper assesses the alignment of the Philippine Government Procurement Reform Act (GPRA) with respect to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Spatial Integration Analysis of the Regional Urea Fertilizer Markets in the Philippines
Fertilizer, an important production input, accounts for a significant share of the total production cost of some crops. However, data...
Chronic Food Poverty and Weather Variability in the Philippines
This study examines the effects of weather variability on food poverty dynamics in the Philippines. Among others, it finds that...
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...
Role of Subjective Perceptions and Migration Culture in the Formation of Migration Intentions: Evidence from a Rural Village in the Philippines
This paper analyzes intention formation as an important part of migration decisionmaking process among prospective migrants. Bringing out the nuances...
Effect of Supply Chain Integration on Business Performance and Competitiveness of Philippine SMEs
This study aims to determine the relationship of supply chain integration with the performance and competitiveness of small and medium...
Participatory Governance Institutions for Social Housing in the Philippines: Do Local Housing Boards Matter?
This study documents the application of participatory governance for social housing in the Philippines through the local housing boards (LHBs),...
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...
Survival Analysis of Export Relationships of Philippine MSMEs
This study examines the survivability of Philippine micro, small, and medium enterprises’ (MSMEs) exports to select countries within the frameworks...
Strategies for Managing Household Water Demand in Carcar City, Cebu, Philippines
This study aims to analyze water demand among households in Carcar City, an urban city in southern Cebu that experienced...
The Philippine Local Water Sector: Institutional Issues in Supply Governance
This paper presents the current water access in the Philippines and reviews the mandates of the two main water regulatory...
An Assessment of the Financial Sustainability and Performance of Philippine Water Districts
This study evaluates the financial condition and performance of local water districts (LWDs) in the Philippines. National data show that...
Primary Health Care and Management of Noncommunicable Diseases in the Philippines
As the Philippines adopts major reforms under the Universal Health Care Act and embarks on an integrated and primary healthcare-oriented...
Sustainable Value Chain Financing for Smallholder Agricultural Production in the Philippines
In recent years, the government has intensified its lending programs to help the country’s agricultural sector, particularly smallholders, in accessing...
Disentangling the Effects of Maternal Employment on Child Stunting in the Philippines
This study analyzes the effects of maternal employment, along with mother’s education, civil status, and wealth, and the child’s age,...
Boosting the Productivity of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries through Parcelization of Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Awards
This paper identifies the benefits and problems in the subdivision of collective land titles in the Philippines. In particular, it...
Rural Physicians’ Experiences with Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Pediatric Tuberculosis Before and After Disasters in Bohol
This paper documents the experiences of rural physicians in managing pediatric tuberculosis (TB) cases before and after disasters in Bohol,...
Value Fragmentation for Persons with Disabilities in the Family: A Case Study in Valenzuela City, Philippines
This paper explores the multidimensional nature of persons with disabilities’ lives with their families in Valenzuela City, Philippines....
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...
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Health Service Coverage in the Philippines
In this paper, the authors conducted a spatiotemporal analysis of health service coverage trends and disparities from 2018...
Understanding Financial Inclusion in the Philippines
This paper examines financial inclusion in the Philippines, benchmarking it against other developing Asian economies using the latest...
Measuring Housing Affordability in the Philippines
This study evaluates housing affordability using other methods beyond the standard 30 percent income benchmark. By employing the...
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...
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...
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