The age structure of the population in most countries has been changing rapidly, and many countries are becoming knowledge-based economies where the generation and use of information as a critical input to value creation are becoming increasingly important. While a decline in the dependency...

The evolution of the COVID-19 crisis has brought unprecedented uncertainty more than one year into the pandemic. Although mobility restrictions have gradually eased and vaccination roll-out has started to pick up, institutions such as public health have continued to face immense pressure from...

The development literature has long supported the view of connecting the agricultural sector to value chains to boost productivity, expand markets and improve sector competitiveness. While there are several market failures that make this a daunting task, there are opportunities for the private...

This paper adopts the approach used by Brussevich et al. (2020) to identify the worker characteristics associated with an increased probability of working from home. Using the same teleworkability scores in the merged 2015 Philippine Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and 2016 First...

This paper examines how the services sector could provide decent and gainful employment in developing Asia. Using living wages as a reference point, this paper reports that a significant portion of the workforce in developing Asian economies, the majority of which are employed in the...

Do burdensome regulatory environments inhibit firm growth? In this paper, we analyzed the effects of regulatory compliance in terms of time and money costs on the probability that a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) can grow. We also tested whether the relationship between regulatory compliance...

This paper analyzed the relationship between firm characteristics and credit constraints among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Philippines. In particular, we determined whether an SME's firm characteristics are correlated to the predicted probability of being credit-constrained or...

We examine how the services sector could provide decent and gainful employment in developing Asia. Using living wages as a reference point, we report that a significant portion of the workforce in developing Asian economies, the majority of which are employed in the agricultural sector, are not...

Using work from home (WFH) scores obtained by matching Philippine occupations with classifications defined by Dingle and Neiman (2020), this paper estimates that only 12.38 percent of all workers can work from home and 25.7 percent of Philippine occupations are teleworkable, mostly from the...