The paper describes the pattern of Japanese private investment in the Philippines, reviews the analytical aspects of private foreign investment in general and how Japanese investment fit in that framework and suggest directions for policy and research analysis. Philippine exposure to Japanese...

This paper is an attempt to examine a range of a definitions currently used to suggest poverty or as used in poverty studies. It is argued that the definitions suffer from serious and critical weaknesses. They are inadequate from a theoretical perspective and in giving useful policy options to...

The paper lays out some of the issues around recent world economic events particularly rising protectionism in developed countries. These issues include export potential of manufactured products of developing countries, the interaction and consequences of developed country policies that restrict...

The early emphases of ASEAN economic cooperation on country specialization, upstream industries based on resource endowments, and industrial complimentation were misplaced. Much of global trade expansion has been intra-industry trade fueled by multilateral trade liberalization and common market...

Both in country and regional evidence, show that the Philippines did have the symptoms of the "Asian flu" before its outbreak into a full-blown Asian financial crisis. Although it can not be validated (in a counterfactual sense), one can argue that it may have been the early start of the crisis...

The Philippines has a long history of liberalization experiences. They span a wide range of policy direction from a regime of full decontrol to a mixture of restrictions and free trade. Perhaps this explains why the country has not been able to hold on to a trade direction that has been...

This paper reports on the non-farm employment aspects of two agricultural towns considered to be at varying stages of agricultural modernization. It is found that non-farm employment increases with the pace of agricultural modernization. At the middle stages of modernity, employment decreases...

The paper examines what happened when quantitative restrictions were removed in 1962 and the system of protection was replaced only with a tariff system in operation until about 1966 or 1967. The paper shows that the concerns that are directly and immediately influenced by import liberalization...

The Philippines has never had a structural experience in export development. Instead of fully departing from protection and import-substitution, export policies were placed on top of existing biases and the country ended up achieving neither export-orientation nor efficient import-substitution....