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    Suggested Rules of Origin Regime for EAFTA

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    In moving toward the East Asian vision of a community, a rational, enabling regime of rules of origin (ROOs) that would encourage deeper economic integration and shared prosperity should be established.
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    Assessing competition in Philippine markets

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Since the 1980s, the Philippines implemented market-opening reforms such as trade liberalisation, deregulation, and privatisation in order to encourage competition in the economy. However, the overall impact of these reforms on growth, investment, and employment has been limited.
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    Avoiding anomalies of GDP in constant prices by conversion to chained prices: accentuating shifts in Philippine economic transformation

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Changing the base year (1985) of Philippine GDP in constant prices could change the growth rate and the shares of components even when there is no change in the volume of production, implying that the changes in growth rate and shares are anomalous (i.e., no real basis).
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    A review of build-operate-transfer for infrastructure development: some lessons for policy reform

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    The Philippines has used the build-operate-transfer BOT law, as amended to motivate private sector provision of infrastructure. Using examples from selected BOT projects in the country, this  paper points out key issues constraining the successful implementation of the BOT approach to infrastructure provision.
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    Implementing US GDP in chained prices for cross-country GDP growth and sectoral comparisons: application to selected ASEAN countries

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    GDP in constant prices of ASEAN countries suffers from substitution bias by ignoring relative price changes and makes GDP growth and shares dependent on the base year. These analytical deficiencies led the US since the mid-1990s to convert GDP from constant to chained prices. Thus, cross-country comparisons in constant prices are analytically shaky even with the same base year.
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    Spatial-tmporal dimensions of efficiency among electric cooperatives in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990 to 2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier model augmented with spatial-temporal terms, addressing the underestimation of technical efficiency usually encountered among maximum-likelihood based methods.
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    Financial Services Integration in East Asia: lessons from the European Union

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Economic integration in the European Union has, arguably, been one of the most significant developments in the global economy in the last half-century. Other regions in the world, to a greater or lesser degree, appear to be in quest of a similar goal – the integration of their regional economies. What lessons could they learn from the European Union experience?
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    Investment and capital flows: implications of the ASEAN economic community

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    One of the objectives of the evolving ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is to promote free investment flows and freer capital flows. By deepening economic integration among them, ASEAN member countries can establish a region-wide production base that will attract more foreign direct investment and strengthen the existing FDI-trade nexus in East Asia.
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    Closer tade and financial cooperation in ASEAN: issues at the regional and national level with focus on the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Trade and financial policies in ASEAN-member countries have contributed to the goal of economic integration. One important feature of this process is the need to narrow the development gap in the region in order to make economic integration more effective and meaningful.
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    Shaping APEC: perspectives from the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    APEC’s vision of integrating the APEC has remained, for the most part, intangible. Cultural differences, socioeconomic disparity, and lack of a defined structure and leadership have been cited by many as major obstacles. Lately, there has been a proliferation of regional groups in Asia, creating an impression that APEC is no longer a priority for its members.

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