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The Philippines has not been immune to the worldwide trend towards the creation of semi-autonomous revenue authorities. To date, three bills are pendi..
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This paper first examines the extent of cost and profit inefficiencies of the Philippine credit cooperative system using stochastic frontier analysis ..
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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...
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The paper analyzes the possible effects of tariff reduction in the 1990s on unemployment, household income and household welfare using a computable ge..
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This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income inequality. The approach relaxes the r..
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For many years, the Philippines has neglected the issue of population growth, consequently finding itself now virtually alone among middle-income deve..
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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..
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This paper attempts to analyze governance systems in Southeast Asia and proposes some policy suggestions that can improve governance practices in the ..
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This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. It employs poverty dec..
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The output gap is the difference between the economy鈥檚 actual output and potential output, with the latter being the level of production consistent ..
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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 ..
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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..
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Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..
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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..
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This paper addresses the lack of information on the disparity of outcomes, utilization and access to Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health ser..
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