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    Using the social rate of discount in evaluating public investments in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    What discount rate to use in evaluating public investments has been a subject of long and intense debate. There are varying views coming from both theory and practice. The common practice is to use a range of estimates and perform a sensitivity analysis. The range usually suggested for developing countries is 8–15 percent.
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    Will Africa benefit from a demographic dividend?

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2012
    Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind other regions in terms of fertility change and the period of declining dependency ratios lies largely in the future. This paper considers what is needed for Africa to convert favourable demographic change into a major economic opportunity.
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    Getting ready for AEC 2015: standards and conformance in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    With the realisation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 drawing closer, harmonising national standards is increasingly a focus of regional efforts. This Policy Note aims to give a brief introduction to standards and conformance in the Philippines as well as to ASEAN initiatives aimed at facilitating trade flows.
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    Economic policy monitor 2012: regional economic integration and inclusive growth - engaging nations, embracing people

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    With the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, this report takes a look at the effects of the rapid pace of regional economic integration on the achievement of sustained, inclusive growth in the Philippines.
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    Investing in local roads for better mobility of people, goods, and services

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    The Philippines has made a relatively significant improvement in transport and logistics performance. While this performance is certainly an achievement, it pales, however, in comparison with those of neighbouring ASEAN countries such as Malaysia and Thailand.
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    How can government increase R&D activities in the Philippines?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) collaborated with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in the last quarter of 2009 to undertake a study focusing on the identification of factors that drive multinational corporations (MNCs) and technology-based companies to locate in the Philippines and invest in innovative activities.
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    Putting rice on the table: rice policy, the WTO, and food security

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    The Philippines has been and shall continue to be a major rice importer. Rice is the country’s major staple, accounting for nearly half of the calorie intake of the population. It is an important source of livelihood for millions of small farmers. Food security is conventionally equated with self-sufficiency in rice.
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    Why some firms innovate and why others do not

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    Various studies have pointed to the Philippines’ meagre expenditures on research and development (R&D) activities, especially when viewed vis-a-vis those of its neighboring countries. Innovation, however, is not just confined to inventions and R&D. From an economics standpoint, an innovation must increase value, whether customer value or producer value.
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    Research briefing: institutions for macroeconomic stability in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Possibly the greatest contemporary challenge for Brazil is to return to the cycles of institutional reform that were implemented at the end of the twentieth century, which could then serve as a reference or example for other emerging economies. But, as this briefing argues, amongst policy makers, there is little impetus to review, much less restructure, monetary, tax and fiscal institutions.
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    Institutions for macro stability in Brazil: inflation targets and fiscal responsibility

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Monetary and fiscal institutions have played a decisive role in the stabilisation of the Brazilian economy since the mid-1990s. Brazil’s experience of designing and managing institutions to this end is likely to be of interest to other emerging and low-or middle-income economies.

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