The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which was concluded by participating countries in the Uruguay Round of negotiations, is the first multilateral effort to establish rules governing the conduct of international trade in services, including financial services. The GATS also...

The recent proliferation of state and local universities and colleges compounded with the high unemployment rate among graduates of fields related to agriculture, fisheries, and natural resources (AFNR) questions the validity of government making it a standing policy to make AFNR tertiary...

The official poverty data fall short of properly informing public policy and governance concerning the progress, or lack thereof, in achieving the country’s commitment of halving, between 1990 and 2015,the incidence of poverty and hunger. Imposing consistency in poverty estimation shows that...

Anecdotal evidence permeates accounts on the impact of the global economic crisis (GEC) on Philippine poverty. This study systematically assesses the evidence and recent data. It adopts a somewhat eclectic approach, applying regression and decomposition techniques to trace the GEC impact on GDP...

The paper aims to analyse the evolution of cost and profit efficiency for Philippine commercial banks during the period 1992-2004. It has been observed that cost inefficiency increased after liberalization in 1994 and further shot up after the Asian financial crisis. Profit efficiency, on the...