Striking a balance between trade facilitation and preventing trade deflection is the single most difficult challenge with regard to the issue of rules of origin (ROO). ASEAN ROO is already considered as among the simplest in the world and still, in practice, results fall short of expectations....

The strong recovery of the five crisis-affected countries of East Asia between 1999 and 2000 has revived the debate on the causes of the 1997 financial crisis. Initially there had been an emerging consensus that the crisis had originated from the capital account. However, some analysts see the...

While previous studies utilizing P* indicates that the model is better applicable with large countries, the paper argues that the Philippine case should include a foreign gap price. Further work should also focus on estimating more appropriate values of Q* and V*.

The Ramos administration has inherited an economy that is in a state of recession. Despite this discouraging condition, this paper argues that this need not dishearten policymakers. Instead, they should take advantage of the stabilized Philippine macroeconomic conditions. The best way to do this...

As part of the assessment of the Aquino Administration, this paper investigates the Philippine management on external debt. The insights offered here is valuable to future steps the present and succeeding government might wish to undertake.

To analyze the impact of the Gulf Crisis on the Philippine economy, this paper describes the current state of the economy and the energy policy of the government. It documents and describes in detail the policy measures adopted by the government to deal with the impact of the Gulf Crisis....

Devaluation in the presence of an external debt will generally lead to a fall in real output and a rise in prices. Central to this paper is the model that has allowed the author to arrive to the above conclusion.

The 2008 global economic and financial crisis spawned a synchronized recession among industrialized countries leading to a contraction in world trade. Exports from developing countries fell sharply dragging many of them into the global economic downturn. The Philippines was not spared the...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) recognize the need to understand the link between disability and poverty. In fact this has become one of the key issues in the subject of poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific...