This study estimates a system of food demand equations utilizing nationally representative survey data. These estimates are then used to set-up a mode..

This paper investigates the impact of liberalization of international investment restrictions in the Philippines on the discounts of the First Philipp..

This paper examines Vietnam’s institutional debates and reforms during 1987-1997. It maintains that the country has started “renovation process”..

The passage of the local Government Code of 1991 has heralded a new era in local government credit financing. The Code has liberalized the credit pol..

In this cover story, Dr. Benjamin Diokno makes a model forecast on the performance of the 1998 Philippine economy based on the developments in ..

Capital inflows can be an engine for economic growth, if handled properly and used to augment the country’s real productive capital. Converse..

As a lead story of DRN’s issue, Dr. Josef Yap provides an economic forecast for the rest of the year. The author claims that the fiscal secto..

With local government and metropolitan issues like traffic management and water disposal occupying more and more print space in the daily newsp..

Being an HMO cardholder is one of the necessities that workers can’t do without. Nowadays, there are a number of schemes created to help Fili..

Can agricultural policies affect the land use and planting patterns of farmers? Can they be used to encourage the planting of more environment-..

Newly installed Philippine President Ejercito Estrada has mentioned that he comes in the most trying times of leadership. Armed by well-respected econ..

The Philippine is lagging behind its neighbors in the area of science and technological research and development. Unless appropriate and immediate act..

DRN’s special issue focuses on the highlights of the roundtable discussion sponsored by the Department of Health, Cebu and PIDS. Discussions put for..

The article features the financial turmoil in East Asia that sent shock waves across the global economy. It discusses the reason for the contagion of..

The article presents the arguments on whether the peso is overvalued or not. The Balassa-Samuelson theorem was used as argument against labeling the ..