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    New forms of financing the fiscal deficit: examining the effects on the fiscal accounts

    2001
    The hard budget constraint faced by the government of Philippines and the equally critical need to fund programmes that will stimulate growth and promote poverty alleviation have drawn attention to the use of innovative forms of debt financing such as arrearages or the build-up of accounts payable, zero coupon bonds, securitisation of government assets, and partnering with the private
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    Has foreign entry made domestic banks more efficient?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    Unite's and Sullivan's study, based on a sample of 16 expanded commercial banks (ECBs) and general macroeconomic data for the Philippines for the period 1990-1998, on the whole, supports the view of a general weakening of relationship-style banking brought about by the liberalisation of foreign presence in the Philippine banking sector.
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    Explaining the decline in tax effort

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    With the continuing deterioration of the Philippine government's fiscal position in the past years, it is important to arrest the undeterred contraction of the government's revenue effort. This policy note analyses the sources of the decline in the country's tax effort and offers recommendations on where and what to focus to be able to address this urgent problem. 
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    Fiscal incentives revisited

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    The Philippines has a long experience in providing fiscal incentives to favored activities. Even before it institutionalized the investment incentive system in 1967 with the passing of the first Omnibus Investment Code (OIC), the government has been granting fiscal incentives to selected industries that it deemed, rightly or wrongly, to have large potential positive impact on the economy.
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    The Philippines’ fiscal position: looking at the complete picture

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    This policy note traces the movement in the country's fiscal position, from a relatively manageable deficit level of 3.5 percent of GDP in 1990 to surpluses of less than 1 percent of GDP in 1994-1997 to a persistently rising level of 4.6 percent of GDP in 2003.
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    The AFP’s institutional responses to armed conflict: a continuing quest for the right approach

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    This policy note looks at the various operation plans or OPLANS that the Philippines military designed and implemented against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) under the presidencies of Ferdinand Marcos, Corazon Aquino, Fidel V.
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    Reviewing the Philippines’ spectrum management policy

    2006
    In light of the latest developments in information and communication technologyy, it is important that the issuance of licenses to companies that may be assigned specific uses or allocations of frequency bands in a spectrum range be made in the most efficient and transparent manner.
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    Are recent gains in BIR tax effort sustainable?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    The period 2005-2007 saw a significant improvement in the revenue effort of the Philippines' Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). This policy note asks questions such as what contributed to the gains in revenue effort, and can said gains be sustained in the near to medium term? 
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    Make ‘deliberate’ haste in rolling out the 4Ps

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    With the Philippine government rolling out its own version of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme called "Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program" or the 4Ps in all its target areas, this policy notes raises outstanding issues on the programme design and implementation.
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    Assessing LGUs’ health service delivery performance: the cases of Agusan del Sur and Dumaguete City

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    With the legislation of the Local Government Code (LGC) in 1991, the responsibility of delivering health care services was transferred from the Department of Health (DOH) to the local government units (LGUs).

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