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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..
Research Paper Series

The Philippines and Cambodia both abound in numerous freshwater bodies and resources that provide an economic and food base for rural people in the in..
Policy Notes

Would you be willing to have a Muslim in your house as boarder? Or hire a Muslim woman as househelp or a Muslim man as worker in your company? How abo..
Development Research News

The use of English language for cross-border communications is important in many areas of trade ranging from tourism to trade in financial services. E..
Philippine Journal of Development

The study proposes an alternative means to the present manner of identifying eligible Philhealth beneficiaries through the use of three criteria, name..
Discussion Papers

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 ..
Discussion Papers

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

The old adage, "quality, not quantity," sums up the defining criterion that separates the winning schools and countries from the rest in today's race ..
Development Research News

The call center industry is one of the country's bright prospects in the area of business process outsourcing. Growing by 100 percent in just one year..
Economic Issue of the Day

Services has taken over the role of agriculture as the Philippine economy's engine of growth. Not only does it contribute significantly to GDP, it als..
Books

This article deals with the concept of competitiveness. Competitiveness is technically a firm-level concept. However, it is oftentimes extended to the..
Philippine Journal of Development

The recently signed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is said to represent a "new age free trade area" in that its terms and pr..
Policy Notes

This paper investigates the implications of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001 for the Philippines based on an analy..
Philippine Journal of Development

Does the prevalence of child work or child labor encumber on the country's economic growth and development? This paper looks into the reality that is ..
Philippine Journal of Development

With the rapid advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) and the equally rapid spread of the Internet, a new system has emerged to..
Development Research News
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