The monthly average peso-dollar exchange rate went down to 42.6608 in February from 43.6190 in January. The year-on-year inflation rate furt..

This study aims to review and assess (i) the sources and uses of funds of state universities and colleges (SUCs); (ii) the impact of the application n..

This report presents the findings of the research conducted by the 蝌蚪传媒 (蝌蚪传媒) on leading noncommunicable dise..

The study on "Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN: Thailand" aimed to study policies and institution arrangement for managing internationa..

Local road investments work for growth and poverty reduction in local areas. The paper highlights the importance of investing in local roads and direc..

Consistent aggregation ensures that real GDP level and growth do not change as the existing GDP components are merely rearranged. Otherwise, level or ..

The Philippines has often been cited as the global model in managing international labor migration. Despite the complexity of our management infrastru..

Thousands of urban slum dwellers including these in the Ulingan community in the Philippines capital of Manila (map) live amid filth and swirls of to..

A fiscal decentralization strategy to help empower local-level governments towards boosting economic activity and reducing poverty levels in their res..

Philippine decentralization had a good start in the `90s with the approval of the Local Government Code in 1991. But fiscal decentralization has suffe..

IT has been a decade since the Electric Power Industry Reform Act was signed, but the promise of lower rates has yet to be seen. The Philippines is re..

In the early 1970s, Malaysia began to be inundated by foreign workers, all of whom were irregular migrants. A decade later their uncontrolled entry le..

This paper compiles a database on the rules of origin (ROOs) of the ASEAN plus 1 FTAs--namely ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement, ASEAN-Korea FTA, ASEAN-C..

The Aquino administration will begin to feel the pinch of insufficient revenues as early as next year given its failure to legislate new tax measur..

The government must release the list of the best- and worst-performing local government units (LGUs) each year in order to encourage reforms in fisca..