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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..

This study resulted from UNDP’s interest in the Philippine proposal for debt-to-MDG financing presented to the United Nations in September 2005. It ..

The paper reviews the innovations developed by some financial institutions to meet the challenges of microfinance and rural finance markets. Innovatio..

This study assesses the state of microinsurance in the country, identifies the players and their performance, and the challenges facing microinsurance..

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that enable microfinance institutions ..

A major theoretical as well as political approach to transport infrastructure investment and management is the idea that such services are public good..

The increasing demands and expectations placed upon the Philippine bureaucracy by a redemocratizing society are further amplified by the strengthening..

What does 2005 hold for Filipinos? As always, PIDS Senior Research Fellow Dr. Josef Yap provides another forecast for 2005 in this issue. He talks abo..

This book examines the trends in Philippine banking regulation in the past 25 years. In particular, it notes that the Philippines has followed a polic..

This book, which is co-published with the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC), provides a review of carefully selected literature and descriptio..

This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this li..

The past two decades have seen the growing financial liberalization and integration of the countries in the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the wo..

When disturbances like an economic crisis, a market reform or even a change of government occur, the financial sector becomes affected and may result ..

Citing impressive gains in the last three years, the author points out the bright prospects for microfinance as a major source of financing for small ..

Twelve years into the implementation of the Local Government Code of 1991, it is but opportune to assess how the key features of this landmark legisla..