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    Philippines-Japan economic partnership: where is the Philippines in Japan's plan

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    Going by the statements of the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan’s top priority with regards to regional and bilateral economic partnerships (EPA) is to carryout the framework of its EPA with ASEAN by 2012 or earlier. It must be stressed that Japan is economically interested in the whole Southeast Asia, and not in any single country in it.
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    Philippines-Japan free trade agreement: analyzing its potential impact using a Computable General Equilibrium Model

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The object of this study is to analyze the potential impact of the Philippines-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the Philippine economy using a computable general equilibrium model.
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    A note on the competitiveness debate

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Competitiveness is technically a firm level concept. However, it is oftentimes extended to the national level--the idea of a country's 'international competitiveness' with the following analogies: market share-->export share of country; price-->real effective exchange rate or unit labor cost; profitability-->long-run economic growth.
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    China's WTO entry: effects on its economy and implications for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The Philippines’ bilateral trade with China has increased steadily since China adopted the open door policy in late 1979. The growth has been particularly rapid in the nineties when Chinafocused its liberalisation on foreign trade.
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    Spatial stochastic frontier models

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) helps explain producer’s efficiency and provide an alternative paradigm to econometric analysis when some assumptions fail.
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    The 2008 financial crisis and potential output in Asia: impact and policy implications

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Monitoring the behavior of potential output helps policymakers implement appropriate policies in response to an economic crisis. In the short-run, estimates of the output gap will guide the timing of implementation and withdrawal of stimulus measures.
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    Prospects for regional cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean region and the Asia and Pacific region: perspective from East Asia

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    The economic success of the East Asian region during the past four decades and its proven resilience during times of crisis demonstrate that regional integration, supported by both open trade and regional cooperation, is a key factor for sustained growth and development.
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    Innovations in financing food security

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Food production will have to increase by 70% in 2050 to keep up with a global population that is projected to grow from 6 billion to 9 billion (UN, 2009). Given the physical and environmental constraints on increasing land and water use for food production and other economic activities, agricultural productivity will have to substantially improve to meet increasing demand for food.
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    Total factor productivity in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    The paper presents estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) from 1967 to 2000. It was observed that while TFP growth was mostly negative in the last thirty-five years, its contribution to economic growth improved consistently from 1.76 percentage points in the middle of 1980s to +0.41 in 1998-2000. This is the period when major economic policy reforms were pursued vigorously.
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    Comparing GDP in constant and in chained prices: some new results

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    This paper’s framework for GDP in chained prices yields GDP in constant prices as a special case of constant relative prices, i.e., these GDP measures differ only when relative prices change. The framework has a novel additive procedure, counter to the prevailing view that GDP in chained prices is non-additive.

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