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Volume 8, Numbers 1 and 2
This issue features six papers examining critical economic and social policies in the Philippines. The first article assesses...
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 20, Number 1
This issue presents economic analyses on small and medium enterprise (SME) development, rural labor dynamics, monetary policy, and...
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 25, Number 1
This issue examines critical economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippines, focusing on financial sector reforms, foreign direct...
Volume 27, Number 2
This issue explores critical economic and industrial challenges facing the Philippines, from the competitiveness of the information technology...
Volume 31, Number 1
This issue presents in-depth analyses of key economic and policy challenges shaping the Philippines and Southeast Asia. One...
Volume 37, Number 1
This issue explores critical economic and policy challenges shaping agriculture, trade, environment, and development in the Philippines and...
Volume 46, Number 2
This issue of the Philippine Journal of Development contains articles on agriculture, exports, health, and the Pantawid Pamilyang...
The 1981-85 Tariff Changes and Effective Protection of Manufacturing Industries
This article assesses the impact of the ongoing tariff reform on effective protection rate (EPR) in the manufacturing sector given...
An Analysis of Fertilizer Policies in the Philippines
The Philippines does not have a comparative advantage in the domestic production of fertilizer. This is one of the thoughts...
The Recent Recession and Rising Protectionism in Developed Countries: Some Thoughts on the ASEAN Economies
This paper has been presented at the Southeast Asia Program luncheon seminar in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York on April...
The Australian System of Tariff Preferences: An Evaluation of its Employment Effects in the Context of Australia-ASEAN Trade
This article assesses the contribution of Australia’s preferences to generation of employment opportunities in ASEAN region. It also verifies the...
Indirect Tax Reform in the Philippines: A Complementary Measure to the Tariff Reform Program, 1979-1985
This study analyzes the effect of the interaction between domestic indirect taxes and tariff system to the market of particular...
Interdependence in ASEAN: An Assessment of the ASEAN Preferential Trading Agreements (PTA)
This article examines whether the ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements have increased the level of interdependence among ASEAN countries in the...
Tax Evasion in the Philippines, 1981-1985
From the administrative and policy perspective, determination of magnitude of tax evasion and an analysis of tax evasion levels 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...
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...
Macroeconomic Impact of a Tariff Reduction: A Three-Gap Analysis with Model Simulations
Using a three-gap model, it can be shown that a reduction in the tariff level will lead to an unambiguous...
Comparative Tariff Policies of ASEAN Member Countries
Contrary to earlier findings, tariffs in most favored nations have significantly declined by as much as 51 percent since 1986....
Effects of the AFTA-CEPT Scheme on Philippine Manufacturing Industries
Under the Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) scheme of the ASEAN free trade, tariffs on ASEAN products will be progressively...
Food Policy: Its Role in Price Stability and Food Security
Due to the increase in prices of basic agricultural commodities in 1995, food price stability and food security have again...
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...
The Effects of Shifting to Transaction Value and Other Issues
This study takes off from an earlier inquiry on the effects of Home Consumption Value (HCV) valuation. It is intended...
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...
Can Imports Discipline Collusive Firms?: The Case of the Philippine Cement Industry
Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of...
Rules of Origin: Regimes in East Asia and Recommendations for Best Practice
Amidst the rising trend in free trade agreements (FTAs) and growing international production sharing, rules of origin (ROO) has been...
Factors Affecting Use or Nonuse of Free Trade Agreements in the Philippines
Within East Asia, the outward-oriented Philippine economy is a latecomer to using free trade agreements (FTAs) as a trade policy...
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...
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...
The Philippine Local Water Sector: Institutional Issues in Supply Governance
This paper presents the current water access in the Philippines and reviews the mandates of the two main water regulatory...
Analyzing the Diversity and Inclusivity of Philippine Exports to the European Union Under the GSP+
This study assesses the diversity and inclusivity of Philippine export activities to the European Union (EU) amid the country’s status...
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