The Philippines needs to beef up manufacturing if it wants economic growth to be inclusive, according to the Philippine Institute for Development Stud..

The clock is ticking for the impending ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) which has a target of 2015. The plan envisions a region fully integrated into th..

We bring you our thirty-first volume of the PIDS Development Research News which has an enhanced design and layout. In this first issue for 2013, PIDS..

Questions of sustainability and inclusiveness of economic growth have always been raised in academic and policy debates. In this third issue of the PI..

The road to inclusive growth can start with education. Human resource is the backbone of the economy, and a well-trained, highly competitive workforce..

The latest poverty statistics released by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) have attracted considerable attention as they clearly sho..

One of the inevitable consequences of economic growth is rapid urbanization. The developing world has seen the emergence of megacities, which are vita..

Competition is a touchy subject in the developing world. In the Philippines, the unvarnished truth is that there is hardly a culture of competition. P..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said that the country’s manufacturing lag from the 1990s to 2000s caused the "boom-bust cycl..

While the Philippines is urged to identify its niche to capture the fast-growing medical tourists, Cebu has already established its own positioning by..

"We need to address the urgent need of narrowing the gap between the richest and the poorest Filipino households in terms of health status," said PIDS..

THE PHILIPPINES needs to create 14.6 million jobs in the next four years, and the way to do this is by keeping the country on a sustained path of econ..

CHED chairperson Patricia Licuanan explained the DAP amounting to P4.28 billion from the Aquino administration, saying that the allocation for the sta..

CHED chairperson Patricia Licuanan explained the DAP amounting to P4.28 billion from the Aquino administration, saying that the allocation for the sta..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), stated in an email to the Bicol regional office of Philippine Information Agency (PIA) that t..