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In moving toward the East Asian vision of a community, a rational, enabling regime of rules of origin (ROOs) that would encourage deeper economic inte..
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Using a political economy perspective, this paper establishes the strong relationship between rice and politics and explains recent developments in th..
Research Paper Series

With the global economy currently in turmoil amid soaring fuel and food prices and a looming US recession, is there a role for regional cooperation su..
Policy Notes

This paper reviews the current empirical literature on competition and market structure of Philippine industries. It shows that weak competition is on..
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Changing the base year (1985) of Philippine GDP in constant prices could change the growth rate and the shares of components even when there is no cha..
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Land ownership brings with it not only the opportunity for the farmers to improve their lives, but moreso it is a testament that the state is bent on ..
Development Research News

The Philippines has used the BOT law, as amended to motivate private sector provision of infrastructure. Using examples from selected BOT projects in ..
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Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households鈥� partic..
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Illness or injury, death of a family member, man-made calamities and natural disasters have a devastating effect on those poor households鈥� cash flow..
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Understanding and eradicating poverty has hounded mankind for centuries and despite the multitudes of studies on the subject, there is still no single..
Economic Issue of the Day

GDP in constant prices of ASEAN countries suffers from substitution bias by ignoring relative price changes and makes GDP growth and shares dependent ..
Discussion Papers

The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990 to 2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier model augmented with spatial-..
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While the national average for maternal and child health services utilization shows improvement, the Philippines is yet to achieve the MDG targets for..
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What brought about the soaring price of rice in recent months? How did the government respond to it? This Notes traces the root of the situation and a..
Policy Notes

What caused the global financial crisis of 2008? What series of events led to the situation? This Economic Issue of the Day presents a brief summary o..
Economic Issue of the Day
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