BUTUAN CITY, May 6 (PIA) - Forecast from the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) showed that the Phil..

The average peso-dollar exchange rate slightly went down to 44.4136 in April, from 44.4457 in March. However, this figure is still lower than that fo..

BACOLOD CITY–The Philippines loses as much as 1.1 percent of its local output, or its gross domestic product (GDP), each year to disasters such as t..

This paper is a narrative account and assessment of the grassroots participatory budgeting (GPB) process in three municipalities of the Negros Provinc..

Bottom-up budgeting (BUB) is an adaptation of the participatory budgeting model in identifying and providing solutions to poverty at the municipal/cit..

Studies find increasing frequency, intensity, and impacts of natural disasters, especially as they interplay with the negative effects of climate chan..

The Department of Education`s (DepEd) School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) is a "well-managed" program according to a study recently released by state ..

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), in its official estimated poverty figures for the first half of 2013, reported that 24.9 percent of Filipin..

As the country observes Women`s Month this March, state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies released two timely policy notes on wo..

Amid the apprehension of some sectors and leaders over the viability of the K to12, state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PID..

Manila: Anxious not to see a repeat of last year’s port congestion in the capital, the Philippine government has moved to strip local officials of t..

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Philippines marks its fifth year of implementation in 2013 since its inception in 2008. The first..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has proposed several policy and infrastructure reforms to tackle Manila ports' long-standing c..

Philippine Institute for Development Studies President Gilberto M. Llanto welcomed members of the Consumer Protection Group of the Ministry of Economi..

This issue of the Development Research News focuses on the significance of an integrated approach in analyzing problems and finding solutions--otherwi..