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With the financial services sector integrating, the question being asked is: should regulation also do the same? Must the structure of the regulatory ..

This paper is an assessment of the constraints and opportunities for capturing the gains from the devolution of environmental and natural resource (EN..

If land-degrading agricultural intensification in uplands is driven by labor migration, what will be the effect of nonfarm employment growth? On one h..

Upland farmers have long been cast as key actors of deforestation, but in the wake of timber scarcity brought on by deforestation and logging restrict..

Do the most promising policies to promote sustainable upland farming originate at the local or national level? Will coordination of local and national..

This paper documents and analyzes interactions between environmental and natural resource (ENR) management research and local governance. It draws fro..

This short paper attempts to clarify some of the issues and provide suggestions for reforms in the fiscal incentive system. In particular, it focuses ..

Using panel data from about 1,500 farm households and estimating from a logit model, the study shows that agrarian reform has had a positive impact on..

Water plays an essential part in every economic activity and this is the major reason for competition in water usage as well as the basis for the gove..

ASEAN economies have long recognized the importance of developing a deep and broad domestic debt securities market to complement the banking system in..

Before 1997, the East Asian economies were enjoying economic prosperity characterized by unprecedented high economic growth and low unemployment rates..

This second offering of the Annual Budget Analysis Series once again underscores the tight financial position faced by the national government, especi..

This paper attempted to test whether efficient cooperative rural banks (CRBs) have a better control of their agency costs. We used two different conce..

Has foreign entry indeed made domestic banks more efficient? Unite's and Sullivan's study, based on a sample of 16 expanded commercial banks (ECBs) an..

Is the Philippines ready to face foreign competition in the financial sector? Does it have enough supply of professionals who are capable of meeting t..