This article has been delivered during the Central Bank Diamond Jubilee celebration on November 21,1988. It reviews the issues of Philippine structural adjustments with a focus on the identification of elements in the past Philippine efforts that appear to be critical in the future adjustment...

This article is a review attempting to provide the background for a more detailed and rigorous examination, both theoretical and empirical, of the agrarian reform and interlinking issues. It deals largely on market interlinking and credit services, land market and credit interlocking. A welfare...

Using panel data from about 1,500 farm households and estimating from a logit model, the study shows that agrarian reform has had a positive impact on farmer beneficiaries. It has led to higher real per capita incomes and reduced poverty incidence between 1990 and 2000. Compared to nonagrarian...

This study aims to identify possible alternative mechanisms of extending credit to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB) and to assess the effectiveness, viability and sustainability of the alternative mechanisms for delivering credit assistance to ARBs. It employs two research methods, namely...

Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households’ participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program...

The center of the county’s agrarian question is rooted in the skewed land distribution pattern. In addition, this particular agrarian structure is a legacy of our colonial experience and a product of the accumulated adverse effects of the palliative land reform measures implemented by the past...

Inasmuch as a large portion of the family labor force in the farm is women and youth, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program can substantially impact on the role of these groups on development. This paper reviews the gender issues in rural nonfarm enterprises (NFEs) and agrarian reform areas....

The Philippine agriculture sector’s limited capacity to absorb the existing rural labor force has led to the demand for nonfarm employment in the rural labor market. Despite its shortcomings, agriculture still remains a vital component to the economy. This paper attempts to bring together and...

Against the backdrop of the cattle stock depletion and the stagnation of economic activities at the backyard level, this paper reviews the history of government support programs and the current state of the cattle industry. It also provides a literature review of supply behavior for cattle....

Utilizing secondary information and current literature, this paper documents and analyzes the following: the utilization of landowner’s compensation under PD 27 and RA 6657, the factors that encourage or discourage the shift of landowners form agriculture to industry, the existing incentives...