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Volume 9, Numbers 1 and 2

This issue features papers presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Philippine Economic Society and the Third National Convention...

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 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 2

This issue explores key economic and financial concerns in the Philippines, with studies examining monetary policy, public enterprises,...

Volume 15, Number 2

This issue delves into key economic challenges and policy considerations in the Philippines, covering topics such as balance...

Volume 18, Number 1

This issue presents a range of studies on macroeconomic frameworks, trade policies, financial systems, and policy interventions affecting...

Volume 22, Number 1

This issue examines key economic and policy issues shaping Philippine development, from capital inflows and debt valuation to...

Volume 22, Number 2

This issue delves into critical aspects of economic cooperation, trade liberalization, and policy coordination within the Asia-Pacific Economic...

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 29, Number 1

This issue explores the intersection of economic growth, environmental sustainability, and decentralized governance, with a focus on the...

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 2

This issue presents a diverse set of studies on trade, labor, infrastructure, and language policy, offering insights into...

Volume 34, Number 2

This issue explores key economic themes, including labor costs, export-led growth, poverty measurement, and education spending. The studies...

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...

Philippine Economic Setting in a Turbulent World Economy

Sector Sources of Philippine Postwar Economic Growth: The Over-all Record in Comparative Perspective

This paper looks at the Philippine postwar growth within a comparative framework, utilizing the record and experience of ASEAN countries...

Toward a New Regional Economic Order in Asia and the Pacific

This paper discusses the New International Economic Order in the Asia-Pacific region. It argues that harnessing national growth and regionalism...

Size, Supervision and Patterns of Labor Transactions

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

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...

Transaction Cost and the Viability of Rural Financial Intermediaries

Recognition of a continuous improvement in the formal financial system is necessary for economic growth. Over the years, the government...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Constraints to Food Security: The Philippine Case

Over the past two decades, the Philippine economic growth has been erratic and lower than most developing countries in Asia....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Informal Economy, Governance, and Corruption

The nature of activity of the informal sector may vary across the developed and developing countries, yet it is evident...

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.,...

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...

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...