-industrializing developing countries (People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Philippines), drawing on recent developments in applied …

In response to the spike in rice prices in 2008, the rice subsidy program budget for the Philippines's National Food …

's Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam; diagnoses the …

), Philippines, and Thailand. It develops a crisis index that measures the impacts of the crisis by comparing actual values of … product, Korea suffered the worst in reduced employment, and Philippines' output was affected only in 2009. In the labor … problems, particularly Korea's problems with youth unemployment, and Philippines' and Thailand's vulnerable industrial sectors. …

From 1994 to 2006, the average household saving rate in the Philippines declined by 5.2 percentage points to about a … patterns are best explained by the extended coverage of social security system during the 1990s in the Philippines. Less …

As one of the world's largest recipients of remittances, the Philippines received remittances roughly 12% of its gross … to the Philippines do not have a significant influence on other key items of consumption or investment such as spending … households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …

, distribution, and telecommunications) in the Philippines from 1991 to 2004. On the assumption that value-added effects arise from …

We examine the role of trade liberalization in accounting for increasing wage inequality in the Philippines from 1994 …