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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

The Dynamics of Housing Demand in the Philippines: Income and Lifecycle Effects

Jun 01, 2002

RPS 2002-01

This paper examines the housing consumption pattern of Philippine households. Two basic issues are examined: one, how is housing demand associated wit..

Research Paper Series

Financial Services Integration and Consolidated Supervision: Some Issues to Consider for the Philippines

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-19

With the financial services sector integrating, the question being asked is: should regulation also do the same? Must the structure of the regulatory ..

Policy Notes

Fiscal Incentives Revisited

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-18

Pointing out that fiscal incentives have costs that must be compensated by net benefits to society, this Policy Notes recommends a revisit of the gove..

Policy Notes

Industry Benchmarking for Improved VAT Administration

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-17

One of the ways to improve the administration of the value added tax (VAT) in the Philippines is through the development of industry standards against..

Policy Notes

Effecting Efficiency to Sustain MFIs: The Case of Cooperative Rural Banks

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-16

To be of continuous and reliable service to poor families with small businesses, microfinance institutions (MFIs) must operate in a sustainable ma..

Policy Notes

The Philippine Fisheries R&D Institutions: A Look at Their Publication Record

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-15

One of the indicators to measure the performance of fisheries R&D institutions is their ability to publish, especially in refereed journals in their a..

Policy Notes

Explaining the Decline in Tax Effort

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-14

With the continuing deterioration of the Philippine government's fiscal position in the past few years, it is important to arrest the undeterred contr..

Policy Notes

Does Domestic Regulation Promote Globally Competitive Filipino Professionals and Educational Services?

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-12

Almost every country has its own set of domestic regulations that determine how easy or difficult it is to pursue a freer movement in the trade of ser..

Policy Notes

A Second Look at Institutional Reforms in the Housing Sector

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-11

Despite the long list of policy instruments adopted by the Philippine government through the years to improve the country's housing situation, very li..

Policy Notes

Using Community-Generated Data for Water Management Policy

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-10

This Policy Notes documents the experience of Lantapan, a watershed community in Bukidnon, where data collected by a community-based group to monitor ..

Policy Notes

Why Watershed-Based Water Management Makes Sense

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-09

Due to the alarming increase in the scarcity of water in various parts of the world, there is a growing recognition from the supply side that efforts ..

Policy Notes

Rice Policy Reforms in the Philippines: A Political Economy Perspective

Jun 01, 2002

PN 2002-08

Changing leaders, changing styles, changing programs--this in a way sums up why policy reforms somehow get delayed and, at times, derailed often at th..

Policy Notes

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