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    Economic integration and regional cooperation in East Asia: a pragmatic view

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    Intraregional trade and investment among the ASEAN+3 countries—and the entire East Asia—has been progressing at a robust pace over the past 25 years. The process of economic integration could be aptly described as “regionalization” or market-driven integration.
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    Fiscal reform agenda: getting ready for the bumpy ride ahead

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The paper traces the roots of the Philippines' fiscal problem and concludes that it is largely attributable to the deterioration of the natio nal government’s revenue effort.
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    East Asian cooperation: the ASEAN View

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    From its modest beginning of providing a regional framework in which disputes could be dealt with peacefully and without resort to force, ASEAN continues to evolve into a major influence for greater regional cohesion not only for Southeast Asia but also for the entire East.
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    A cmparative study of the Bilateral FTA arrangements:

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    This study is a comparative analysis of recently concluded bilateral free trade or closer economic partnership agreements including the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement ( JSEPA), the New Zealand-Singapore Closer Economic Partnership ( NZSCEP), the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement ( USSFTA), the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement ( SAFTA), and the Korea-Chile Free
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    Developing the Japanese market for Philippine tourism and and retirement services: prospects and impediments

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The Philippines and Japan have considered forming an economic partnership that will remove barriers to trade and investments in a number of economic sectors including tourism. Ranked as the second largest tourism market (next to the United States), Japan has contributed roughly US$190 million in revenues to the Philippine tourism industry.
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    Exploring potentials of a Japan-Philippines economic partnership in human resource development

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    With the proposed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), bilateral trade agreement opens up fresh opportunities for cooperation in the realm of human resource development between the two countries.
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    Trade and investment in a globalized setting: the Philippine experience in Muslim areas

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The study on Muslim traders in the Philippines was done to determine the profile of the Muslim trade enterprises and the effect of globalization on the Muslim traders as perceived by them. The design of the study was a qualitative-descriptive type of research with a sample of 150 respondents obtained through purposive sampling.
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    Local public finance in the Philippines: in search of autonomy with accountability

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Twelve years into the implementation of the Local Government Code of 1991, it is opportune to assess how the key features of this landmark legislation has contributed to (or detracted from) achieving the balance between local autonomy and accountability.
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    How can regional institutions support reforms to domestic financial systems

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    More recently, considerable attention has been given to financial regional integration and cooperation, which intensified in the wake of the East Asian financial crisis. Thus, a number of regional initiatives, such as development of regional bond market and credit rating agencies, among others, have been put forward to form part of the foundation of regional financial integration.
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    Evaluating the impacts of competition plicy reforms on the efficiency of Philippine commercial banks

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    This paper has attempted to examine the impacts of competition policy reforms on the efficiency of the Philippine commercial banking system. It uses the stochastic frontier approach to come up with estimates of profit efficiency and cost inefficiency measures. The results are quite interesting:

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