In the past one and a half decades, the Philippine government pursued major economic policy reforms. One of the key focused areas is the trade sector...

The paper analyzes the possible effects of tariff reduction in the 1990s on unemployment, household income and household welfare using a computable ge..

This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income inequality. The approach relaxes the r..

For many years, the Philippines has neglected the issue of population growth, consequently finding itself now virtually alone among middle-income deve..

This study examines benefits (and losses) from the rent control law in Metro Manila. The results show that net benefits from rent control are positive..

This paper attempts to analyze governance systems in Southeast Asia and proposes some policy suggestions that can improve governance practices in the ..

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. It employs poverty dec..

The output gap is the difference between the economy’s actual output and potential output, with the latter being the level of production consistent ..

Is poverty incidence higher among families with a bigger family size? Is there a cause and effect in the relationship between family size and poverty ..

Since the passage of the Local Government Code in 1991, what has constituted as a major source of loan financing for local governments is the Municipa..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

This paper is a preliminary review of the state of competition in the insurance industry of selected Asian countries. In particular, it explores how c..

This paper addresses the lack of information on the disparity of outcomes, utilization and access to Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health ser..

This paper examines the conduct of exchange rate policy in the Philippines since the early 1980s, paying particular attention to the influence of exch..

In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microf..