The objective of the study is to assess and analyze sustainability of overall public debt and sustainability of … sustainability through interest rate and growth rate differential and level of primary budget balance while external debt … sustainability is assessed through interest rate on debt and growth rate of exports differential and current account balance. The …

sustainability in the local budgeting process. …

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand have not recouped their losses from the 1997 Asian Crisis …

This paper detects pro-girl (age 5-15) bias in intrahousehold allocation of consumption budget in the rural Philippines …

The Philippines has long been regarded as the weak sister of Asia, but in the Asian financial crisis it performed … relatively well. This is not simply a matter of not being able to fall out of the basement, either—in mid-1997 the Philippines … of the eventual contraction were less in the Philippines than elsewhere in Asia. Rather, the Philippines crisis …

overall economic ill-being in the Philippines did not change much even with robust economic growth in recent years. This …