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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 2
This issue explores key economic and trade dynamics shaping the Philippine economy, covering topics such as bilateral trade,...
Volume 16, Number 1
This issue examines the complexities of rural financial markets in the Philippines, highlighting the challenges faced by farmers,...
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 24, Number 1
This issue examines key economic policies shaping the Philippine financial and trade landscape, with a focus on microfinance...
Volume 24, Number 2
This issue explores the economic and environmental challenges facing the Philippines, covering trade liberalization, sustainable forestry, poverty assessment,...
Volume 27, Number 2
This issue explores critical economic and industrial challenges facing the Philippines, from the competitiveness of the information technology...
Volume 30, Number 1
This issue examines critical economic policies and sectoral challenges shaping the country\'s growth. The volume opens with an...
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 2
This issue explores key economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippine economy. One study examines the shift from...
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...
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 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 36, Number 1
This issue explores key economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippine economy. One study examines the shift from constant 1985...
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...
Buoyancy and Elasticity of Revenue
Revenue, which is essentially obtained through the tax system, is an essential component of development to effectively meet the increasing...
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...
Outputs and Inputs of Philippine Commercial Banks
Exactly what constitutes bank input and output has not yet been settled. Some argue that deposit liabilities and earning assets...
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...
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...
Financial Liberalization: What Have We Learnt?
This article attempts to study the Philippine experience with financial liberalization. In particular, it examines the impact of interest rate...
Infrastructure, Output Supply and Input Demand in Philippine Agriculture: Provisional Estimates
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...
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...
Asymmetric Information in Rural Financial Markets and Interlinking of Transactions Through Self-Help Groups
One of the issues contending the rural borrowers, who are composed of small entrepreneurs, fishermen and farmers, is the access...
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...
Interlinked Credit Arrangements
This article is a review attempting to provide the background for a more detailed and rigorous examination, both theoretical and...
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...
Old Images and New Challenges: Rethinking the Mission of Agricultural Support Systems in Asia
To speak of rethinking the mission of the agricultural support system is no easy task. It has already played crucial...
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...
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...
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,...
Indicators of Good Governance: Developing an Index of Governance Quality at the LGU Level
Governance is a complex concept. It includes the state’s institutions and structures, its decisionmaking process, its capacity to implement guidelines...
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...
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...
Liberalization and Deregulation in the Domestic Shipping Industry: Effects on Competition and Market Structure
The author, at the outset of her study on shipping transport, rightly states the importance of this industry in an...
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...
Governance in Southeast Asia: Issues and Options
This paper attempts to analyze governance systems in Southeast Asia and proposes some policy suggestions that can improve governance practices...
English as the Language of Trade, Finance, and Technology in APEC: an East Asia Perspective
The use of English language for cross-border communications is important in many areas of trade ranging from tourism to trade...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
Is the Pacific Alliance a Potential Pathway to the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific?
The establishment of a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) is one of the priorities of the Asia-Pacific Economic...
Dominant Supplier Approach to Liberalizing Trade in APEC Environmental Goods
If member-economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) are to implement the APEC environmental goods (EGs) initiative, how should they...
Services-Manufacturing Linkage and the Role of Policy
The database of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-World Trade Organization (OECD-WTO) on Trade in Value Added shows that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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