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 …

calculations on the Philippines suggest that capital flight contributed to lower the quality of long-term economic growth …. Sustained capital flight over three decades means that capital flight had a role for the Philippines to lose the opportunities … the macroeconomy more effectively, the Philippines remains caught in the perpetuity of crises, its economy hollowed …

This paper, in a comparative analysis of the Philippines and Indonesia, examines first under what conditions can …

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

Analysis of World Values Survey 2000 data for the Philippines finds that lower income Filipinos are more likely than …

a long way in pulling the poor out of poverty in the rural Philippines. …

incomes has contributed to the economic decrepitude of the Philippines. Debt relief is neces-sary to pull the country out of …