`EVEN the gods love jokes,` Plato wrote. But then Plato never met Imelda Marcos. Neither did the Greek thinker read the farce that is Imelda Marcos` M..

MANILA, Oct 5, 2010 (IPS) - His bones pushing against his skin, Lean Ray Francisco has been feeding on rice coffee, or coffee made from roasted rice,..

MANILA, Philippines—With the support of both the United Nations Children`s Fund (Unicef) and the World Bank, the Department of Social Welfare and De..

The annual headline inflation rate at the national level slowed down to 3.9 percent in June from 4.3 percent in May. Likewise, core inflation slig..

This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about the need not only to monitor curr..

The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on hospitals being managed by the DOH. Th..

This paper, which is borne out of the need to address scarcity of evidence-based studies on barangay financing, analyzes and evaluates key issues on ..

The recent global financial and economic crisis which started in the United States and expanded to other developed countries has, to some extent, affe..

Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food sec..

Certain economists observe that following the Flying Geese pattern of development in the aftermath of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis has resulte..

Are price controls the best answer to alleviating consumer pains in the face of rising prices of basic commodities and services? Do they help the econ..

With the political noise brought about by the upcoming national elections as well as the prospects of a global economic recovery as backdrop, what cou..

Ranking provinces in terms of human development, which provinces fared well and which fared badly across time in each of the components of the human d..

In this paper, we present a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both food and nonfood poverty thres..

Research and development (R&D) is an important resource for sustained economic growth. New knowledge created by a firm has spillover effects that impr..