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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 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 17, Number 2
This issue explores key economic themes, from household savings behavior to macroeconomic policies and industry evaluations, offering insights...
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 24, Number 1
This issue examines key economic policies shaping the Philippine financial and trade landscape, with a focus on microfinance...
Volume 25, Number 1
This issue examines critical economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippines, focusing on financial sector reforms, foreign direct...
Volume 31, Number 1
This issue presents in-depth analyses of key economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippines and Southeast Asia. One...
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 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 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...
Volume 45, Number 1
This volume of the Philippine Journal of Development consists of articles on social housing, the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership...
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...
A Preliminary Study of Income-in-kind Underreporting in the Quarterly Integrated Survey of Households (ISH)
This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics at the Philippine International Convention Center on December 13-14,...
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...
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...
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...
Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis: An Overview
This article summarizes the articles that have been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at...
Methods in Consumption Analysis: Consumer Theory, Econometric Issues and Philippine Estimates
This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños...
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...
Block-Recursiveness of the Household Production Model Under Risk
This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños...
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...
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...
Water in Metro Cebu: The Case for Policy and Institutional Reforms
Over the past decade, Metro Cebu has been rapidly moving toward growth and industrialization contributing as much as 70 percent...
Equivalence Scale and Poverty Assessment in a Poor Country
Mainly due to the dearth of available data, this article empirically illustrates that the practice of using household expenditures/incomes in...
Income Distribution and the Macroeconomy: Some Conceptual and Measurement Issues
Being intended for students interested with the dynamics of interaction of the macroeconomy, income distribution and poverty and who are...
Land, Income, Mobility and Housing: The Case of Metro Manila
Housing developments have been hampered by exorbitantly priced land specifically in the cities. The 1991 housing survey show that Metro...
Targeting Transfers to the Poor: the Case of Food Subsidies
Provision of safety nets for the poor is a popular call in development policies especially in light of the government’s...
Marriage in Rural Philippine Households
Utilizing intergenerational data from a sample of rural households in Laguna Province, this article tests the proposition that rural families...
Migration and the Environment: The Case of Philippine Uplands
Modeling the relationship between population growth and migration, this paper shows that destinations with higher average household incomes attract many...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Shifts in Living Standards: The Case of Vietnamese Households 1992-1998
This paper investigates determinants of shifts in living standards for Vietnamese households, measured by the difference in consumption at two...
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...
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,...
Policy and Regulatory Issues and Challenges in Microinsurance: a Philippine Case
When poor households face catastrophic events, they do not have any means for risk protection. Access to formal risk protection...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Irregular Migration from Cambodia: Characteristics, Challenges, and Regulatory Approach
The study examines the characteristics, root causes, and challenges of irregular migration from Cambodia and then discusses the regulatory approaches...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published biannually by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). It serves as a platform for disseminating policy-oriented research on development issues, including the economy, business, public administration, foreign relations, sociology, and political dynamics.
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