There are a number of issues regarding women’s health, women’s reproductive behavior, fertility impact of reproductive health programs and the effect of gender roles and expectations in these factors. This paper attempts to put together recently available Philippine information that could...

Understanding women’s situation in grassroots organization may aid the evaluation of the women’s general developmental role. This study explores that issue from the viewpoint of a self-reliant model focusing on the low-income women who join community organization. Utilizing information from...

Macroeconometric models may have lost its fame in the past decade; nevertheless it has remained useful in guiding policy decisions and forecasting. This paper is concerned with its estimation and its uses regarding stabilization policies. Improvement in the present Philippine macroeconomic models is...

This paper has two objectives: determination and assessment how the existing empirical household models capture the effects of changes in macroeconomic variables on the welfare of the Filipino household and identification of research gaps in the literature. For some of the Philippine models to...

This paper attempts to lay the groundwork for more vigorous studies on the micro impact of macroeconomic adjustment policies in the Philippines. Specifically, it provides a framework for analyzing the impact of macroeconomic adjustment policies at the micro level. It also describes and analyzes...