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In recent years, a number of lending instruments have been introduced and tried out in the area of housing finance. In the Philippines, a group lendin..

How to frame efficient rural finance policies that would become potent tools for development remains as a challenge to policymakers. Over the past two..

The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement is envisioned to further boost Japan's ODA to the Philippines, particularly for capital formation..

The services sector, as shown in this article, is outpacing traditional industries, specifically in developing countries. With a possibility of forgin..

This paper first examines the extent of cost and profit inefficiencies of the Philippine credit cooperative system using stochastic frontier analysis ..

This paper attempts to analyze governance systems in Southeast Asia and proposes some policy suggestions that can improve governance practices in the ..

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. It employs poverty dec..

Since the passage of the Local Government Code in 1991, what has constituted as a major source of loan financing for local governments is the Municipa..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

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..

In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microf..

What led to the dynamic growth of the microfinance market in the Philippines? According to Dr. Gilberto Llanto in this Policy Notes, the microfinance ..

One result of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis was greater awareness of the need for closer financial and monetary cooperation. This paper makes a..

Few studies on microfinance have delved on its development from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. This Policy Notes focu..

This Policy Notes looks at the issue of gender concerns in credit cooperatives from a different perspective. Specifically, it looks at the implication..