Provision of weather or climate forecasts is important because it enables policy/decisionmakers to implement alternative courses of action to mitigate..

The paper reviews the gender-differentiated effect of macroeconomic policies by examining the impact of persistent revenue shortfalls on the part of t..

This paper demonstrates how family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this l..

How did the fiscal restraints exercised during the time of fiscal difficulties in 1997-2003 affect the gender/women-targeted programs of the Philippin..

What are the latest developments affecting the Philippines' involvement in free trade agreements (FTAs)? What is the Philippine FTA policy? And what p..

The term tropical cyclone is called hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean, cyclone over the Indian Ocean and typhoon over the Pacific Ocean which includes..

The term tropical cyclone is called hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean, cyclone over the Indian Ocean and typhoon over the Pacific Ocean which includes..

Do men benefit more than women from government expenditures in health care? Or do women have the upper hand? Using a sex-differentiated incidence anal..

When disturbances like an economic crisis, a market reform or even a change of government occur, the financial sector becomes affected and may result ..

Who will carry the burden of the negative shocks to investments of private investors in infrastructure projects due to possible fluctuations in the ec..

If agriculture has historically been the engine of economic growth of the Philippines, it looks like a new engine is driving it these days—services...

Through a free trade agreement (FTA), the Philippines, like other less developed countries, hopes to achieve greater access to the US market. For the ..

This article examines the politico-strategic motivations of the Bush Administration’s efforts to foster free trade agreements (FTAs) to a number of ..

This is the inaugural issue of the SCF Project Updates, the official semestral newsletter of the project "Bridging the gap between between seasonal cl..

The government think tank, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), has named Josef T. Yap as president of the Institute effective April..