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Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..
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This paper is a preliminary review of the state of competition in the insurance industry of selected Asian countries. In particular, it explores how c..
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In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microf..
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This paper examines the effects of the reduction in tariff rates in the Philippines from 1994 to 2000 on unemployment, distribution and poverty using ..
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Should the various currencies in East Asia led by the Chinese yuan be appreciated or revalued? Dr. Josef Yap examines the levels of valuation of these..
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What will 2003 offer for the Philippine economy? Will this be another year of struggle for the whole nation? Or will there be plenty of opportunities ..
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This paper focuses on the shipping transport subsector of the shipping industry because of its high sensitivity to government policies as well as its ..
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Amid the calls for the restructuring--and even possible replacement--of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to effect radical improvements in tax adm..
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This paper looks at the regulatory reforms in the electricity and downstream oil industries, two important inputs to the production process that were ..
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Early child-bearing and high fertility still persist especially among the poor, despite the more than two decades of family planning program implement..
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National innovation system is anchored on the theory that industrial development requires technological capability in industry, and that exploitation ..
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Who benefits from the tariff reforms launched by the Philippine government from 1994-2000? On the basis of the results of his simulation runs, the aut..
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When the WTO talks in Cancun broke down last September, anti-globalization groups and NGOs around the world rejoiced. However, the author of this Poli..
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"Land to tiller" has been the rallying slogan of the land reform program in the Philippines, with improvements in income and productivity in the agrar..
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Trade with nontraditional and distant markets has always been regarded as worth exploring in an effort to increase market shares amidst the downside e..
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