This paper compares the design features and implementation of the social health insurance (SHI) for the poor programs of the Philippines and Vietnam. ..

Recent controversies about certain government infrastructure projects, especially those agreed upon under the framework of the build-operate-transfer ..

This paper provides an overview of the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) system and then describes the methods and data used in the application of NTA ..

Why the need to ratify the JPEPA? Based on the numerous studies carried out under the PIDS JPEPA Research Project, JPEPA will be advantageous to the c..

Valuable lessons have been drawn from the financial crisis that hit East Asia 10 years ago. From this sad experience, Asian countries are now more awa..

Globalization and pressure from increased competition have led to “splintering” of in-house services from formerly integrated manufacturing firms ..

The development of the Philippine automotive parts and components sector is critical to the automotive assembly industry. The availability of competit..

Nontariff measures are everywhere vilified for preventing exports, especially of agriculture, from developing countries. Philippine exporters seem to ..

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to income poverty are developed using..

This paper looks at the issue of reforming financial regulatory structures from the New Institutional Economics perspective. In particular, it examine..

This Notes calls for the need to regularly come up with household vulnerability measurements and trends in the Philippines, in addition to official po..

Has land ownership distribution in the Philippines improved as a result of the land reform program instituted in the country? Not quite, this Policy N..

Almost three years after the government launched two hunger-mitigation initiatives--the Food-for-School and Tindahan Natin programs--questions are bei..

When the GATT and the WTO effectively managed to bring down world tariffs on goods, free trade could have ideally been close at hand. However, in plac..

This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing a cross-sectional analysis of ..