Despite the major contribution of agricultural sector to the Philippine economy, it has been performing dismally since the 1980s. This has been attributed to limited technological progress, inefficiencies in resource allocation and limited infrastructure development. This paper focuses on the...

The Dynamics of Rural Development Project attempts to examine the agricultural sector, which recently has been subjected to comprehensive agrarian reform and rural nonfarm enterprises (RNEs). This paper is an integration of the major findings of various studies under the second set of...

The improving fiscal situation in the Philippines presents an opportune time for the government to reassess the resource requirements of achieving the millennium development goals (MDGs) and to exercise greater vigilance in ensuring that the MDGs benefit from the fiscal space that has been...

Iloilo City is one of the oldest cities in the Philippines. It is faced with a burgeoning population and surging slum dwellers, the easiest solution of which is to expand the city area. However, this is not feasible as the city is bounded in the east by Guimaras Strait, and on the other sides,...

Criticism against large-scale macroeconometric models built in the tradition of the Cowles Commission approach began to mount in the late 1960s. These misgivings were subsequently reflected in the Lucas critique, Sims critique and disenchantment with the model’s Keynesian foundations. In...

The paper aims to identify industry and macrolevel factors that affect competitiveness of selected sectors upon the implementation of the JPEPA. Priority sectors identified by the Department of Trade and Industry, accounting for 82% of total Philippine exports to Japan in 2002, were included in...

The Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) scheme represents the main mechanism to remove barriers to intra-ASEAN trade. Its adoption will entail intraregional tariffs ranging from zero to five percent. AFTA and the increasing globalization (which occurs through trade and foreign direct...

With the passage of the Local Government Code in 1991, LGUs are challenged to efficiently manage its resources given the responsibility of delivering basic services. With this premise, the “Population and Urbanization: Managing the Urbanization Process Under a Decentralized Governance...

The paper focuses on the socioeconomic development experience of Lipa in its journey to being an emerging city. Specifically, it presents the urbanization process in the city particularly the demographic and socioeconomic process with emphasis on the changing economic structure as well as the...

This paper investigates the existing health financing schemes of communities in region XI, particularly on the factors that enable them to set up a sustainable self-managed system where resource generation for financing health services can be established. This provides baseline data on the...