Over the past decade, Metro Cebu has been rapidly moving toward growth and industrialization contributing as much as 70 percent to Visayas’ industrial output. However, associated with this progress are the concerns of various sectors about the quality of water services. Only 23 percent of the...

The application of information and communication technology for improving governance by enhancing government's role in service delivery, public administration, and promotion of participatory democracy has been gaining momentum in many parts of the world. In Philippine local government, this has...

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It discusses several concerns in forestry and upland resources management focusing on the issues of logging, forest destruction and the continuous conversion of forestlands into land uses that are generally prone to...

This paper is an assessment of the constraints and opportunities for capturing the gains from the devolution of environmental and natural resource (ENR) management and for engendering a more sustainable ENR management system in the Philippines. It provides a brief characterization of fiscal...

Due to the increase in prices of basic agricultural commodities in 1995, food price stability and food security have again emerged as a major policy concern. This paper argues that the sharp increases in prices of rice, corn and sugar have been caused largely by the choice and management of...

Under the Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) scheme of the ASEAN free trade, tariffs on ASEAN products will be progressively reduced to 0-5 percent. Such move benefits exporters to ASEAN markets but harms local producers competing with ASEAN imports in the domestic market. Analysis of...

This article assesses the contribution of Australia’s preferences to generation of employment opportunities in ASEAN region. It also verifies the assumption regarding imports and the extent to which imports from LDCs has affected Australian employment.

This paper traces the beginning and evolution of the Philippine Journal of Development--from its conception as a technical journal of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), its transfer of management to the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) in 1981, to its new...

Against the background of weak agricultural sector and the resulting poverty in the rural sector, this study looks at the structure of rural household income in the Philippines over time. It identifies the extent to which nonfarm employment opportunities have affected the structure of rural...

If land-degrading agricultural intensification in uplands is driven by labor migration, what will be the effect of nonfarm employment growth? On one hand, a higher opportunity cost of farm labor should reduce labor-intensive cultivation methods. On the other hand, there may also be a reduction...