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The rapid advancement in technology has facilitated far-reaching use of data. This has consequently led to an increasing demand for data science and a..

The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement or JPEPA had minimal impacts on the growth of Philippine exports after more than a decade of enfo..

The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic that has infected at least 1.2 million people and caused more than 67,000 deaths wo..

The government budget reflects the government’s spending priorities. It is deemed important to assess whether the priorities as outlined in the prop..

The province of Benguet holds a competitive advantage in the production of cut flowers because of its unique weather and climate; however, the access ..

This first issue of the Development Research News (DRN) for 2020 puts light on some key challenges in the Philippine education sector. The banner stor..

As several countries have reduced tariff rates, other forms of regulatory measures that impact on trade have proliferated. These regulations, collecti..

The Philippines is slowly ageing. In a little over a decade, the country’s elderly will comprise at least 7 percent of the total population. This ri..

The study analyzes the efficiency implications of fiscal decentralization using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It uses health expenditure (in per..

This study continues previous work on estimating the vulnerability level of households to income poverty using a modified probit model based on income..

In 2013, amid celebrations over reaching investment grade status for the Philippines under the Aquino administration, I wrote an article questioning w..

Housework, also called unpaid work or nonmarket work, is performed across countries and societies to enhance the well-being of individuals in househol..

The Department of Education (DepEd) is the biggest agency in the Philippine bureaucracy to implement the performance-based bonus (PBB) scheme. This Po..

Typhoons, pests, and other natural calamities cause the country, particularly the agricultural sector, significant damages. For instance, Typhoons Yol..

This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression di..