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The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2004 the International Year of the Rice (IYR). The IYR is a venue to promote improved production and ..

In the Philippines, one major problem is the continuous rise of unemployment. This article which is a condensed version of Dr. Gerardo Sicat's paper w..

Tariff reform, particularly tariff reduction, is one of the major economic reforms implemented in the last one and half decades in the Philippines. Th..

East Asia has been caught with regionalism in recent years. There has been a proliferation of bilateral and regional trading arrangement initiatives a..

The paper discusses critical land issues in the Philippines and assesses the integration of those issues in the national development agenda and povert..

Industrial development requires technological capability in industry. National innovation system is anchored on the theory that industrial development..

The Philippines has not been immune to the worldwide trend towards the creation of semi-autonomous revenue authorities. To date, three bills are pendi..

This paper first examines the extent of cost and profit inefficiencies of the Philippine credit cooperative system using stochastic frontier analysis ..

In the past one and a half decades, the Philippine government pursued major economic policy reforms. One of the key focused areas is the trade sector...

The paper analyzes the possible effects of tariff reduction in the 1990s on unemployment, household income and household welfare using a computable ge..

This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income inequality. The approach relaxes the r..

This study examines benefits (and losses) from the rent control law in Metro Manila. The results show that net benefits from rent control are positive..

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. It employs poverty dec..

The output gap is the difference between the economy鈥檚 actual output and potential output, with the latter being the level of production consistent ..

Is poverty incidence higher among families with a bigger family size? Is there a cause and effect in the relationship between family size and poverty ..