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Rural Finance and Microfinance Development in Transition Countries in Southeast and East Asia

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-12

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

Discussion Papers

Innovations in Microfinance in Southeast Asia

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-11

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that make it possible for microfinance..

Discussion Papers

The Output Gap and Its Role in Inflation-Targeting in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-10

The output gap is the difference between the economy’s actual output and potential output, with the latter being the level of production consistent ..

Discussion Papers

Analysis of Trade Reforms, Income Inequality and Poverty Using Microsimulation Approach: The Case of the Philippines

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-09

This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income inequality. The approach relaxes the r..

Discussion Papers

Trade Reforms, Unemployment, Household Income and Welfare: The Philippine Case

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-08

The paper analyzes the possible effects of tariff reduction in the 1990s on unemployment, household income and household welfare using a computable ge..

Discussion Papers

Poverty and Access to Microfinance with Gender Dimension

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-07

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

Discussion Papers

Integrating Gender Perspectives in Evaluating the Efficiency of COFI: The Case of Credit Cooperatives in the Philippines

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-06

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

Discussion Papers

Tax Administration Reform: (Semi-) Autonomous Revenue Authority Anyone?

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-05

The Philippines has not been immune to the worldwide trend towards the creation of semi-autonomous revenue authorities. To date, three bills are pendi..

Discussion Papers

The Philippine National Innovation System: Structure and Characteristics

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-04

Industrial development requires technological capability in industry. National innovation system is anchored on the theory that industrial development..

Discussion Papers

Land Issues in Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Development Agenda: Philippines

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-03

The paper discusses critical land issues in the Philippines and assesses the integration of those issues in the national development agenda and povert..

Discussion Papers

East Asian Regional Cooperation: Approaches and Processes

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-02

East Asia has been caught with regionalism in recent years. There has been a proliferation of bilateral and regional trading arrangement initiatives a..

Discussion Papers

Analyzing the Impact of Trade Reforms on Welfare and Income Distribution Using CGE Framework: The Case of the Philippines

Jun 01, 2003

DP 2003-01

Tariff reform, particularly tariff reduction, is one of the major economic reforms implemented in the last one and half decades in the Philippines. Th..

Discussion Papers

2002 PIDS Annual Report: 25 Years of Journey

May 13, 2015

PIDS AR 2002

Silver, according to the dictionary, is a white metallic object that is sonorous, very malleable, capable of a high degree of polish, and has the high..

Annual Reports

The Philippine Payment System: Efficiency and Implications for the Conduct of Monetary Policy

Jun 01, 2002

RPS 2002-05

In a modern economy, the payment system is a major component of the country`s infrastructure system. Indeed, no country nowadays can afford to take it..

Research Paper Series

Mercury Pollution Due to Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Philippines: An Economic Analysis

Jun 01, 2002

RPS 2002-02

The study reviews small-scale gold mining in the Philippines and assesses economically mercury pollution and other development problems of the industr..

Research Paper Series

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