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    The policy development process and the agenda for effective institutions: the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    A developing economy such as the Philippines has to create an enabling environment for economic growth and development. But how does one nudge forward the creation of such an environment? This paper departs from the usual discourse on the need for effective implementing institutions.
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    Measuring economic lifecycle and flows across population age groups: data and methods in the application of the NTA in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    The age structure of the population of the Philippines, as in many developing countries in the world, will be experiencing significant changes in the next four decades. These changes can have potentially important implications on economic development. Many studies in the Philippines have examined the population-development linkages.
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    Has liberalization strengthened the link between services and manufacturing?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Globalisation and pressure from increased competition have led to “splintering” of in-house services from formerly integrated manufacturing firms in developed economies and, at the same time, to an increase in “outsourcing” of these same services.
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    Assessing the competitiveness of the Philippine auto parts industry

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    In its effort to develop the domestic manufacture of automotive parts and components, the Philippine government adopted local content requirements which protected the industry for almost thirty years. The government also imposed high tariffs coupled with import restrictions on the importation of motor vehicles.
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    Integrated financial supervision: an institutional perspective for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    The literature on the Asian financial crisis typically contends that financial liberalization and the removal of obstacles to foreign borrowing by banks and the corporate sector, coupled with poor and inadequate prudential supervision, gave rise to the risk of moral hazard and the resulting financial crisis.
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    International remittances and household expenditures: the Philippine case

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    The inflow of international remittances to the Philippines has been recently increasing at phenomenal rates. Official data indicates that from 2001 to 2006, remittances have been growing at an average rate of over 16 percent annually. This suggests that within the said period it doubled and reached a crucial amount of US$12.7 billion or 11 percent of the country’s GDP.
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    Some notes on performance management among agencies

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    In the past few years, the Philippines' government has developed and installed a unique model of performance-based budgeting known as the Organizational Performance Indicator Framework (OPIF).
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    Contractual arrangements in Philippine fisheries

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Economists have begun the quest for explanations of contractual choices in developing countries and especially for pervasiveness of informal credit and insurance arrangements and interlinkages observed in agricultural and fishing contracts.
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    The determination of contracts in agricultural economies

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    This paper aims to analyse how contracts are determined and modified given diverse agricultural settings and to examine the implications of these changes with respect to their efficiency, distribution and sustainability.
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    Analysis of the President's budget for 2004: looking for the complete (fiscal) picture

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The President’s Budget for 2004 is the administration’s last prior to the forthcoming presidential elections in May 2004. Thus, it is but timely to assess not only the proposed 2004 budget itself but also the present administration’s fiscal performance in the last three years.

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