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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 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 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 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 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 17, Number 2
This issue explores key economic themes, from household savings behavior to macroeconomic policies and industry evaluations, offering insights...
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 2
This issue explores the economic and environmental challenges facing the Philippines, covering trade liberalization, sustainable forestry, poverty assessment,...
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 31, Number 1
This issue presents in-depth analyses of key economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippines and Southeast Asia. One...
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 2
This issue delves into key economic and policy challenges shaping regional development, investment, poverty measurement, and productivity in...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Microeconomic Behavior of Agents in a Credit-Output Market in an Agricultural Setting
Rural agents engage in interlocking market transactions to minimize costs due to underdevelopment of rural markets. This study aims to...
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...
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...
Fuzzy Subset Theory in the Measurement of Poverty
What has not been explored in the traditional measures of poverty is the extensive set of categorical variables that indicate...
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...
Supporting Rural Non-Farm Enterprises: What Can be Learned from Donor Programs?
This paper presents a summary of the large and growing literature about donor experience in attempting to meet employment and...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Fiscal Incentives Revisited
This short paper attempts to clarify some of the issues and provide suggestions for reforms in the fiscal incentive system....
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...
Toward Understanding Philippine Trade in Services: A Demand Approach
This article investigates the determinants of Philippine trade in commercial services, and makes an attempt to explain the historical trends...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
P-ISSN 2508-0954 • E-ISSN 2508-0849 • https://doi.org/10.62986/pjd