Was the episode of high inflation in the Philippines in 2022 driven primarily by supply or demand factors? How did the relative contributions of supply and demand evolve over time? This study adopts the methodology proposed by Shapiro (2022) and Shapiro (2023) to disaggregate Philippine...

"Ninety-nine percent of Filipinos are waiting for a telephone and the other one percent for a dial tone…” - Lee Kuan Yew, November 1992. A decade after the above "e, far reaching reforms in the telecommunications sector has dramatically changed the situation in both the Philippines and...

In a nation pledged to “Unity in Diversity”, few industries could be more important than interisland shipping. Yet, since independence, problems plaguing interisland shipping have continued, despite the rehabilitation and modernization under the New Order Government. This book tries to...

The monograph takes off from a definition of environmental problems not only in terms of the degradation of specific resources but also of their habitats. Guided by a framework developed to offset some of the limitations inherent in the neo-classical economic definition of the nature, causes,...

The main purpose of this study is to analyse the role of foreign investment in the search for oil in the Philippines. In this respect, it analyses the outlook, views, conceptions and preconceptions of the Philippine Government, the Philippine Congress, private enterprise and the public toward...

An analysis of agrarian reform in the Philippines, the paper is divided into two sections: the first covers the Spanish legacy and the second investigates the agrarian question under American political tutelage and, with the withdrawal of US colonial sovereignty in 1946, Filipino national...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Globalization Arrives -- chapter 3 Indonesia -- chapter 4 Thailand -- chapter 5 Malaysia -- chapter 6 The Philippines -- chapter 7 Singapore -- chapter 8 Globalization mediated.

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contents -- 1 Renewable Energy, Climate Change, and Sustainability -- 2 Electricity Supply Systems: The Current and Future Role of Renewable Sources of Energy -- 3 Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Technologies -- 4 Capacity...