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US President Donald Trump has handed Asia to China. In an almost unbelievable example of stupidity, he withdrew from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TP..

Wood processing is an important downstream activity of the Philippine forestry sector because it adds economic value to logs, diversifies the products..

Filipinos in Japan are calling on the government to forge closer ties with Japan, noting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's successful visit to the ..

Most Australian firms prefer the Philippines to explore offshoring opportunities, as opposed to other rival potential business process outsourcing (BP..

The Philippines needs to develop an enabling "ecosystem" of policies and institutions to scale up social enterprises. In a recent study released by s..

Providing more incentives can encourage the development and growth of social enterprises (SE), or local business groups that seek to create wealth by ..

Social enterprises in the Philippines are resurging, but the domestic policy environment is yet unresponsive to such growth, calling for greater gover..

If member-economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) are to implement the APEC environmental goods (EGs) initiative, how should they go..

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a regional free trade agreement (FTA) initiated by the United States (US) and is presently being negotiated amo..

Competitive services are necessary for attaining inclusive and sustainable growth. Although the Philippines has notably succeeded in developing severa..

Years of rapid and indiscriminate logging of Philippine forests, coupled with little reforestation, have led to more frequent, widespread, and damagin..

In the Philippines, the rice and corn sectors play an integral role in the agricultural economy in terms of production and employment. However, both s..

Services are critical inputs in manufacturing production, and this is likely to intensify with the advent of new technologies. Based on the trade in v..

The role of global value chains (GVCs) as channels for the growth of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) was emphasized at a policy forum host..

The World Bank Group partnered with state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) in a forum aimed at strengthening the potenti..