This paper argues that the number of states or regional units the Philippine should have when it will federalize the country must be limited to 5. This claim meets the Samuelsonian principle of welfare theorem where marginal social cost is equal to marginal social benefit. The paper also argues...

Oplan Tokhang which was first developed in Davao City Police Office (DCPO) by then Police City Director Police Senior Supt Ronald Dela Rosa was intended to speed up drug-problem solution by visiting houses of the illegal drug personalities and asking them to stop the illicit acts. The system...

The study focused on the public safety strategy which combines internal security and community policing program in Davao Region called R-PSB or the Revitalized Pulis Sa Barangay. The study involved a total of 620 respondents who are implementers of the program. The findings revealed that there...

A univariate time series technique was conducted to determine statistical pattern on killings of drug suspects in Philippines from May 19 to July 7, 2016. The technique reveal a moving-average of order 2, MA(2) with a positive coefficient suggestive that value of outcome variable tend to...

The study simulated the predictive relationships of regional monthly crime rates for a period covering January 2009 to July 2013. A six-equation model representing the six regions in Mindanao was estimated using the seemingly unrelated regression (SUR). The SUR estimation shows that the increase...

The study aims to quantify the economic value of the sand and gravel which is deemed as a non-renewable resource. A survey was conducted to extract the consumer surplus of the households, also construct the demand equation for the resource. With the demand equation for sand and gravel at , the...

Assessing the outcomes of university research agenda are done periodically to determine its attainability and capability to be addressed through actual research engagement of university faculties. In this regard, the paper seeks to evaluate the attainability of research agenda of the University...

The paper determined the relationship of the Law Aptitude Score (LAS), Mock bar score and the General Weighted Average (GWA) to determine probability of passing the bar exams. The study covered the period 2009-2011. The study revealed that LAS and mock bar score do not have statistical influence...

Over the last three years, 2009-2011, the electrical engineering exam performance of the University of Mindanao was found to show declining trend, with faster rate of decline observed for the year-end than the mid-year examination. Though declining, the electrical engineering program could still...

This study explored the relative competitiveness of the ASEAN countries by simulating the MRW model using the Penn World Table (PWT) 7.0. The calibration of MRW model employed the seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) of the family of simultaneous equations model (SEM) technique to address the...