The issue of population growth and economic development is now close to a generation old. Population policy in most developing countries is, however, only slightly over a decade in duration and its impact is just beginning to be felt. Like an adolescent that is experiencing growing pains, the...

Sex-related risks, early sexual experience, and unwanted pregnancies are major concerns of Filipinos. These issues have long been battle grounds for the often rancorous debates about the provisions of the Reproductive Health (RH) Law. In December 2012, Congress approved a comprehensive RH Law...

The Philippines recently introduced two distinct but related large-scale social protection programs that, first, provides conditional cash transfers (CCT) to poor households, and, second, automatically enrolls them into the government's social health insurance program. This has resulted to...