THE goal of raising annual farm output by as much as 5 percent prompted the government more than a decade ago to start increasing the budget for the a..

The world’s most popular Asean beach of 2018 is again open for business after having undergone a six-month-long overhaul under armed military gu..

The Cabinet-level Committee on Tariff and Related Matters (CTRM) has decided to retain the 5-percent tariff on mechanically deboned meat (MDM) of chic..

This Policy Note examines the extent of gender disparities in various education performance metrics, particularly the rate of out-of-school children (..

THE agriculture sector will continue to have difficulties contributing to the expansion of the country’s economy even after the rice import caps..

Macau (MNA) – Budget airline Air Asia announced on Thursday that it would reopen its Kalibo (Boracay) route on March 2, making it the third dest..

A òòò½´«Ã½ study found that men are more likely than women to have SSS/GSIS and PhilHealth especially among workers in the rural areas. Men in the servic..

Unlike their parents before them, poor Filipino children are not necessarily doomed to suffer the indignity of poverty, according to experts from the ..

This paper presents an application of a CGE model to analyze scenarios covering the SDG period at the level of the Philippine economy and for its agri..

The high level of casualties, population displacements, and economic costs from recent disaster events still point to necessary augmentations in disas..

The Philippines has a land mass of 30 million ha, 52.7 percent of which was classified as forestlands. The country was identified as a megadiverse are..

Understanding migration behavior is crucial in designing policy interventions for influencing migrants’ behavior. An aspect of international migrati..

The Research and Development Studies Division of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) visited òòò½´«Ã½ on January 8, 2019 to explore avenues of collabor..

The government must oversee the preparation of the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) to ensure funding and regularity for such data collection effo..

The economic setback caused by the six-month closure of Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan, is a small price to pay to save the country’s top touris..