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    Infrastructure development: experience and policy options for the future

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Global markets for goods and services have opened for countries that have made substantial investments in technological innovations in transportation, communications and production techniques, inventory management and the rapid rate of innovation in financial instruments, among others.
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    The global challenge in services trade: a look at Philippine competitiveness

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    Services has taken over the role of agriculture as the Philippine economy's engine of growth. Not only does it contribute significantly to GDP, it also creates millions of jobs and attracts substantial amounts of foreign direct investments. But the sector's prospects and potentials are not clearly understood.
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    Philippine credit policy and microfinance institutions: some lessons from the Latin American experience

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1999
    A liberalized and deregulated financial market environment as well as good governance are better ingredients than government-subsidized and directed credit programs in ensuring that low-income people gain access to basic financial services. This is one of the major lessons that the Philippines can learn from the credit policy experiences of Latin American countries.
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    Bottleneck to growth: inadequate infrastructure

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    For a country to become more competitive in today's emerging world environment and be able to capture new markets and investments, it has to have efficient infrastructure in place. This has been the experience of many rapidly developing countries in East Asia which invested heavily in power, telecommunications, transportation and the like.
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    Assessing the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    Signed on September 9, 2006, the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) represented a “new age free trade area (FTA)” similar to the ones negotiated by Japan with other ASEAN countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.
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    Export processing zones, special economic zones: do we really need to have more of them

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    Export processing zones (EPZs) are considered an important economic strategy to boost export promotion, attract foreign direct investments, and create employment opportunities for the domestic workforce.
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    Agricultural input subsidies for productivity, farm incomes, consumer welfare and wider growth in low- and middle- income countries: a systematic review

    The Campbell Collaboration, 2013
    Adequate inputs are important to achieving agricultural productivity in developing countries.  But there is a strong concern that the inputs and technologies needed to achieve increased productivity are financially unaffordable or unattractive to many poor farmers.
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    Regional integration in Africa: a study on the East African community

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2013
    As economic growth continues to slump around the world, it
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    The impact of export processing zones on employment, wages and labour conditions in developing countries

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    Export processing zones (EPZs), also called free trade zones, are one of the most common instruments of industrial policy in developed and developing countries. Despite their proliferation and spread across all countries in the world, there is little evidence about the impact that EPZs have on employment and wages.
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    Technology at work: the future of innovation and employment

    Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, 2015
    The 21st century has already brought remarkable technological achievements. The leading corporations of the digital age — including YouTube, Facebook and eBay — barely existed only a decade ago. The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the year Skype was first released. The first iPhone was launched in 2007 and in 2010 Google announced their first fully autonomous car.

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