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    A Review of build-operate-transfer for infrastructure development

    2001
    The Philippines has used the Build-operate-transfer (BOT) Law as amended to motivate private sector provision of infrastructure. After a brief period of success in using the BOT approach to provide infrastructure, the country faces a loss of interest and retreat by private investors in this mode of infrastructure provision.
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    Economic crisis...once more

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    This book is a collection of 15 exhaustive studies on the recent East Asian financial crisis.
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    The Philippines beyond 2000: an economic assessment

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    The performance of the Philippine economy from 1987 to 1997 can be summed up in two statements. One, despite significant gains in almost all sectors, the Philippines still lags behind its neighbors. Two, while there has been a marked improvement in the investment climate, there has been a notable lag in the progress of microeconomic reforms.
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    Toward a national competition policy for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    After more than three decades of protectionism, the Philippines is now shifting toward a more open economy through liberalization, deregulation, and privatization. The reforms that started in the mid-1980s have contributed to moving the economy toward a more market-friendly policy environment.
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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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    Should Southeast Asia fear the Chinese juggernaut? The view from the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    China's emergence as an economic giant in the past 25 years has dramatically changed the global economic landscape especially in East Asia. Should this be a cause of fear for these Asian economies? Or a source of opportunities?
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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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