We examine the role of trade liberalization in accounting for increasing wage inequality in the Philippines from 1994 …

there are beneficial effects of freer trade on the poor in the long run. Since the 1980s the Philippines has considerably … trade in the Philippines using models of the Philippine economy indicates net positive gains for the economy and for …

We show that the most important barriers to investment and growth in the Philippines are structural and institutional …

"Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade … households in the wake of falling world prices and demand for the Philippines' agricultural exports. The authors find that the … poverty, especially in rural areas and among the unemployed, self-employed, and rural low-educated. The Philippines is found …