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Food security remains a major concern among the APEC member economies. A simple and crude exercise shows that the region collectively could supply eac..

Citing impressive gains in the last three years, the author points out the bright prospects for microfinance as a major source of financing for small ..

The financial liberalization in the 1990s appears to have aided the increase in competition among Philippine banks despite the increasing trend in con..

Can LGUs succeed in managing their own population? They probably can, but they need strong national leadership in doing so. This Policy Notes asserts ..

Twelve years into the implementation of the Local Government Code of 1991, it is but opportune to assess how the key features of this landmark legisla..

More recently, considerable attention has been given to financial regional integration and cooperation, which intensified in the wake of the East Asia..

Population processes and outcomes (in this case, urbanization) influences and changes the development of an area and vice versa. In the case of Tagum ..

Trends in economic development influence population outcomes in an area. Increasing economic opportunities that are typically linked to industrializat..

This paper has attempted to examine the impacts of competition policy reforms on the efficiency of the Philippine commercial banking system. It uses t..

The objective of this paper is to examine the rental housing market in the Philippines and provide possible policy options for a viable rental scheme ..

The primary objective for the conduct of the assessment of the social sector is to provide the basis for setting the thematic priorities for the Phili..

Urbanization and rapid increase in population in Metro Cebu brought about increased demand for basic services and infrastructure. The creation of the ..

In the City of Zamboanga, the increase in growth rate during the first half of the decade (1990-1995) can be attributed to the net migration rate. Thi..

This book presents in broad strokes a chronicle of infrastructure development in the Philippines in the last 25 years. It covers the infrastructure ex..

The paper focuses on the socioeconomic development experience of Lipa in its journey to being an emerging city. Specifically, it presents the urbaniza..