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Sex-related risks, early sexual experience, and unwanted pregnancies are major concerns of Filipinos. These issues have long been battle grounds for t..

It is commonly believed that mandating higher legal minimum wages (LMWs) is needed to help the poor earn a level of income that would allow them healt..

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program has been much maligned and dismissed as a 鈥渄ole-out鈥� program. Critics have focused on the fact that it pro..

As we welcome the new year, it is good to note that business confidence in the Philippines remains high despite “political noise” and unce..

Agriculture Assistant Secretary Federico Laciste said in a joint statement the partnership with IRRI was crucial in developing a national strategy for..

The government needs to reduce costs of agricultural lending and smallholder finance to make environment more conducive to increased private sector pa..

The current government help to poor families burdened with expensive medical care is not sufficient according to the Philippine Institute for Developm..

This study is an assessment of the catastrophic health financing by several Philippine institutions including government agencies, such as the Philipp..

This Policy Note summarizes the strategies employed by Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, and Thailand in successfully financing catastrophic health expendit..

The national government is a “poor creditor” for smallholder farmers, according to a study released by state-owned think tank Philippine I..

The labor force participation rate was estimated at 63.4 percent while the proportion of underemployed persons (or those employed persons who expresse..

This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It also assesses the Agrarian Produ..

THE iron hand of the President can be seen in his war on drugs. Blood stains on the streets, left as remnants of this war, are among the biggest chang..

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Dec. 26 (PIA) --- Accessing regional social and economic data will now be easy with the opening of the Regional Socio-Economic An..

Neri was 18, a college dropout on her first year, when she got a job at the department store in the mall. On the fourth month, she was told that her ..