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Credit Crunch! Credit Crunch! Credit Crunch?

Jun 01, 1999

PN 1999-08

Utilizing macro and micro data, this issue verifies the validity of the claim that there has been a credit crunch since the onset of Asian financial c..

Policy Notes

Analysis of Fishing Ports in the Philippines

Jun 01, 1999

PN 1999-07

Observing the underutilization of ports and the inadequacy of coastal communities, this issue suggests specific measures to address these concerns. Th..

Policy Notes

Credit Programs for the Poor: A Tale of Two Studies

Jun 01, 1999

PN 1999-06

Alongside with the poverty alleviation program is the effort to make credit accessible to small and poor households. Despite the government’s effort..

Policy Notes

Sustainable Development and the Philippine Fisheries Code: A Critique

Jun 01, 1999

PN 1999-05

Analysis of the Philippine Fisheries Code results to the findings that some provisions promote sustainable development while others are contentious. T..

Policy Notes

Rethinking Government's Role in Urban Infrastructure

Jun 01, 1999

PN 1999-04

With the demand for urban services and facilities, in particular urban infrastructure, continuing to increase through the years, how can the governmen..

Policy Notes

Loan Guarantee Programs for Small-Scale Borrowers: Are They Working?

Jun 01, 1999

PN 1999-03

Investigation whether small-scale borrowings are effective or not indicate the failure of loan guarantees to stimulate the target groups. While it has..

Policy Notes

Closing the Urban Fiscal Gap: Some Considerations

Jun 01, 1999

PN 1999-02

While urbanization has several advantages, there are also certain problems associated with it. This issue takes a brief look at the urban fiscal gap p..

Policy Notes

Inter-LGU Cooperation: The Key to the Issues of a Devolved Health Care System

Jun 01, 1999

PN 1999-01

Decentralization of national responsibilities to local government units has been seen as a means to ensure that services reach out the grassroots leve..

Policy Notes

Indicators of Good Governance: Developing an Index of Governance Quality at the LGU Level

Jun 01, 1999

JPD 1999 Vol. XXVI No.2-d

Governance is a complex concept. It includes the state’s institutions and structures, its decisionmaking process, its capacity to implement guid..

Philippine Journal of Development

Contagion Effects of the Asian Crisis, Policy Responses and their Social Implications

Jun 01, 1999

JPD 1999 Vol. XXVI No.2-c

This paper looks at the contagion effects of the Asian crisis on the Philippine economy, the policy responses, and their social implications. In parti..

Philippine Journal of Development

R&D Gaps in the Philippines

Jun 01, 1999

JPD 1999 Vol. XXVI No.2-b

Based on the chain of causality, R&D translates to innovation and to productivity/ technological progress, which ultimately leads to economic growth a..

Philippine Journal of Development

Constraints to Food Security: The Philippine Case

Jun 01, 1999

JPD 1999 Vol. XXVI No.2-a

Over the past two decades, the Philippine economic growth has been erratic and lower than most developing countries in Asia. The agriculture sector ha..

Philippine Journal of Development

Greenhouse Gas Inventory in the Forestry Sector

Jun 01, 1999

JPD 1999 Vol. XXVI No. 1-i

Among the components in the inventory of greenhouse gas sources and sinks, forestry and land use are the most complex. This paper summarizes the neces..

Philippine Journal of Development

A Study on the Impact of Climate Variability/Change on Water Resources in the Philippines

Jun 01, 1999

JPD 1999 Vol. XXVI No. 1-h

This paper presents an effort toward a better understanding of the potential impact of climate variability and change on the hydrology and water resou..

Philippine Journal of Development

Ownership and Property Rights Issues in Watershed Resource Management

Jun 01, 1999

JPD 1999 Vol. XXVI No. 1-g

Well-defined property rights recognize the ownership of material and abstract things. The low enforcement of property rights for a certain resource ma..

Philippine Journal of Development

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