Philippine government spending on health care is short of the at least 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) recommended by the World Health Organ..

“The Philippine economy has grown respectably in the past few years, but the overall health status indicators have not markedly improved commensurat..

Health expenditures in the Philippines must increase to 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product from the current level of 3 to 3.5 percent..

Given the 1.8 million yearly increase in population, the country still largely ignores the health sector, coughing up about 3 percent of the public sp..

The Philippine government spends only 3 percent on public health, much smaller than what the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommends. Oscar P..

This paper shows that the decomposition of log-change in aggregate labor productivity (ALP) devised by Balk (2013) based on Sato-Vartia indexes is ine..

This paper draws lessons from international practices to determine the feasibility of developing mortgage-backed securitization (MBS) to expand housin..

A top official of the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) has underscored the urgent need to address the gap between the richest and th..

September of every year was declared as Development Policy Research Month (DPRM) by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 247 signed on September 2..

This Policy Note provides an overview of the puzzle of economic growth and stalled health improvement in the country. The Philippine economy has grown..

This Policy Note explains the large disparities in health status between the poor and the nonpoor in the Philippines. Key factors include: (1) the per..

This Policy Note identifies opportunities for making health financing and services more inclusive. Many opportunities exist today to make growth more ..

In a PIDS policy note titled “Urgent: A road map for agro-industrial development in the Philippines,” authors Roehlano Briones and Ivory Myka Gala..

Between 1974 and 2004, the average labor productivity growth in the Philippine manufacturing industry stood at 0.29 percent, lower than Indonesia`s 4...

In a statement released by state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Asian Development Bank (ADB) Independent Evalua..