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...