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One key to international competitiveness is being technology adept. A country should be able to absorb, adapt and develop technologies that are better..

The textile-garment industry is a classic example of the challenge for Philippine agroindustrial restructuring. While the garment industry has been on..

Recently, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are acquiring relative importance in the Philippine economic setting. In the light of the need for produ..

This issue shows that Philippine labor has been relatively more expensive than the rest of its neighbors. If the country is to improve its industrial ..

Associated with industrialization is the aggravation of environmental problems. This issue looks into Metro Cebu manufacturing data to investigate ind..

If overfishing in marine fisheries is not arrested, the sector may experience unprecedented collapse. This issue attempts to analyze the implications ..

Environmentally preferable products (EPPs) are desirable because these do not leave adverse impacts on the environment and natural resources. While se..

This note presents a framework for agroindustrial restructuring for international competitiveness of the Philippine economy. It situates the agroindus..

Despite the government鈥檚 credit program approach, access of poor households to microfinancial services has remained limited. This paper explains the..

Using a three-gap model, it can be shown that a reduction in the tariff level will lead to an unambiguous decline in the GDP growth rate if it results..

Contrary to earlier findings, tariffs in most favored nations have significantly declined by as much as 51 percent since 1986. Nevertheless, the obdur..

Due to the increase in prices of basic agricultural commodities in 1995, food price stability and food security have again emerged as a major policy c..

The GATT/WTO may affect the Philippine economy in three ways: through changes in tariff structure resulting from the country鈥檚 commitment in the Uru..

This paper examines the Community-Based Forest Management Program (CBFM) and Industrial Forest Management Agreements (IFMA) within the context of effi..

Credit provision for small and poor households has always been the major element of nongovernment organizations in alleviating poverty. Recently, ther..