Part One of the Osaka Action Agenda has clarified the implications of the basic political commitment to free and open trade and investment in the Bogor Declaration and has set out operational guiding principles and a well-developed strategy of implementation. This paper seeks to build on the...

This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics at the Philippine International Convention Center on December 13-14, 1982. It discusses the different legal instruments utilized in the Philippines to encourage invention and to facilitate technology purchase. A brief history...

Some industries are relatively more harmful to the environment but industrialization has been a significant factor in Cebu’s environmental degradation. In addition, government efforts to curb degradation have failed. This has been the paper’s major result after the examination of the...

One of the recent European developments is the plan of creating a single market implying the removal of obstacles to trade in goods, services, capital and labor. Hence, it is worthwhile to examine the impact of such move to a small country like the Philippines, the growth of which depends...

This article is presented before the 19th Annual Meeting of the Philippine Economic Society at the Manila Hotel on December 11, 1982. It covers some concerns about the Philippine economic environment within the context of a world economy that may continue experiencing real growth deceleration....

This paper investigates the impact of liberalization of international investment restrictions in the Philippines on the discounts of the First Philippine Fund (FPF) closed-end country fund. In particular, it investigates whether such restrictions are binding and how U.S. investors see the...

This article is presented before the 19th Annual Meeting of the Philippine Economic Society at the Manila Hotel on December 11, 1982. It discusses why the Philippine growth in the 1950s has not been sustained. It also reviews the major industrial policies and assistance to cottage, small- and...

This article measures the amount of foreign participation, direct and indirecin Philippine agriculture. However, due to insufficient time and inadequate data, its aim has been reduced to aid further research on the effects of foreign participation in Philippine agriculture.

Usual indicators of intertemporal rural performance are technically flawed mainly because of the “shifting” of the physical area of the rural sector as population grows and/or economic activity expands. This problem is illustrated here using Philippine recovery data. Also shown is the fact...

This paper has reviewed four major developments in the last 30 years: the collapse of the Bretton Woods arrangements; deepening of economic integration worldwide; the frequency and severity of the crises that affected not only developing economies but developed economies as well; and the formation...