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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 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 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 Macroeconomic Policy Environment of Philippine Agricultural Performance

A sustained healthy growth in agriculture requires an equally sustained healthy growth in the macroeconomy. It is towards this end...

Markets, Institutions and Family Size in Rural Philippine Households

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

The Philippine Health Institutions: Some Problems, Approaches and Policy Issues

This paper presents a brief analysis of the current situation of Philippine health institutions using secondary data. It locates the...

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...

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,...

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...

Beyond Socioeconomic Status: Some Implications for Planned Health Intervention Among the Poor

This paper discusses the insights derived and the lessons learned from two research studies that have been recently conducted among...

Environmental and Natural Resources Management: Lessons from City Program Innovations

The enactment of the 1991 Local Government Code has brought greater responsibilities for local government units to manage their natural...

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...

Pricing, Technology Choice, and Information in Health Care Markets

This paper proposes a pricing model for health care markets wherein providers and patients play a Nash bargaining game. In...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Measuring the Structural Capacity of Philippine Hospitals to Provide High-Quality Health Care

This paper measures Philippine hospitals’ management practices and service capability based on their structural inputs. The authors collected...

Assessing PhilHealth’s State of Financing and Role as the National Purchaser of Healthcare Services

This paper reviews the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation’s (PhilHealth) performance from 2015 to 2019 based on the three...

Who Wins and Who Loses from PhilHealth? Cost and Benefit Incidence of Social Health Insurance in a Lifecycle Perspective

This paper used incidence analysis to examine the financial costs and benefits of the National Health Insurance 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...

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...

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...