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The Philippines has not been immune to the worldwide trend towards the creation of semi-autonomous revenue authorities. To date, three bills are pendi..

This paper first examines the extent of cost and profit inefficiencies of the Philippine credit cooperative system using stochastic frontier analysis ..

In the past one and a half decades, the Philippine government pursued major economic policy reforms. One of the key focused areas is the trade sector...

The paper analyzes the possible effects of tariff reduction in the 1990s on unemployment, household income and household welfare using a computable ge..

This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income inequality. The approach relaxes the r..

This study examines benefits (and losses) from the rent control law in Metro Manila. The results show that net benefits from rent control are positive..

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. It employs poverty dec..

The output gap is the difference between the economy鈥檚 actual output and potential output, with the latter being the level of production consistent ..

Is poverty incidence higher among families with a bigger family size? Is there a cause and effect in the relationship between family size and poverty ..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

This paper is a preliminary review of the state of competition in the insurance industry of selected Asian countries. In particular, it explores how c..

In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microf..

This paper examines the effects of the reduction in tariff rates in the Philippines from 1994 to 2000 on unemployment, distribution and poverty using ..

Should the various currencies in East Asia led by the Chinese yuan be appreciated or revalued? Dr. Josef Yap examines the levels of valuation of these..

What will 2003 offer for the Philippine economy? Will this be another year of struggle for the whole nation? Or will there be plenty of opportunities ..