Reforms - Matches

Are the Philippines` policies for rice self-sufficiency still appropriate at this time? Are they tenable? This Policy Note provides some answers.

Trade and financial policies in ASEAN-member countries have contributed to the goal of economic integration. One important feature of this pro..

Trade liberalization--particularly tariff reduction, which is the focus of this paper--triggers changes in both sectoral price ratios and domestic-for..

Why have housing reforms failed to achieve the desired improvements in housing in the Philippines? A review of trends in government housing strategies..

The paper analyzes the impact of major policy changes on banking structure, performance and competition, using bank-specific data from 1990-2002. We f..

This paper focuses on the legal environment, particularly the insolvency system, that would influence the success of Philippine Special Purpose Vehicl..

More recently, considerable attention has been given to financial regional integration and cooperation, which intensified in the wake of the East Asia..

The Philippines has undertaken major reforms in what could be considered the first layer of competition policy鈥攖rade reforms. It has also implemente..

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...

In recent months, growing evidence has shown that there seems to be an apparent trend for backsliding or reversal of the government policy on tariff r..

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

Tariff reform, particularly tariff reduction, is one of the major economic reforms implemented in the last one and half decades in the Philippines. Th..

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

Changing leaders, changing styles, changing programs--this in a way sums up why policy reforms somehow get delayed and, at times, derailed often at th..

Although justification for competition policies is well founded in the economic literature, there is a need to understand their implications more full..