Starting with the premise that technological innovation and economic growth are interactive and mutually reinforcing, this paper argues that in order to have a fighting chance in the Asean Economic Community (AEC), let alone global, competition, the Philippines (PH) needs to appreciably ramp up...

This paper examines the Philippine experience with trade liberalization policies and their impact on the economy. Although the relationship between trade liberalization and poverty is not straightforward, empirical evidence suggests that there are beneficial effects of freer trade on the poor in...

A general equilibrium of the Philippine economy is to developed to analyzes the effects of investment incentives in the Philippines. The incentives consist of tax rebates and duty drawbacks on imported machineries of firms belonging to industries declared by the government as priority sectors....

A computable general equilibrium model is designed evaluating the economic impacts of agricultural policies such as price floors in food production, price ceilings in food consumption and in the use of agricultural inputs, and irrigation investments. Trade, sales tax, and external debt are also...