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    Trade reforms, competition, and innovation in the Philippines

    2012
    What is the impact of the removal of barriers to trade on the firms` innovative activities? Does the increase in competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on the Philippine manufacturing industry.
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    Small and Medium Enterprises` (SMEs) access to finance: Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Based on a survey of 97 firms in the garments, textiles, automotive, electrical and electronics, and food manufacturing industries; the paper highlights the difficulties faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in accessing finance.
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    Use of the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF) by the Department of Agriculture

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    The Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF) is an ongoing loan and grant program in the Philippines for agriculture and fisheries. From the start of its actual implementation in 2000 up to the present, it has been plagued by numerous problems which significantly derailed the attainment of its objectives.
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    Regional cooperation in education: issues for developing countries in the Asia-Pacific

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Human capital development is important for economic growth. The main channel by which human capital can be enhanced is education, which is characterized by the issues of availability, access, and quality. Domestic reforms can be complemented by regional cooperation in education.
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    Comparative study on the different Free Trade Agreements entered Into by Japan with other Asian countries

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    A general review of the Philippine-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (PJEPA or the Agreement) was originally scheduled in December 2011. Accordingly, it was deemed that an assessment on how the Agreement affected the Philippine economy after three years of implementation would be helpful not only for the immediate purposes of the review but also for future negotiating processes.
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    Toward optimal budget utilization at the Department of Foreign Affairs: Focus on foreign service posts and the International Commitment Funds

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    Zero-based budgeting is an approach to preparing cash flow budgets and operating plans wherein every line item of the budget must be approved, rather than only the incremental changes from the previous budget. It requires the analysis of every function within an organization for its needs and costs and each activity is justified on the basis of cost-benefit analysis. ZBB builds the
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    Agriculture, rural employment, and inclusive growth

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    At the top of the agenda of the Philippine Development Plan is inclusive growth, meaning growth that is rapid, sustained, and wide enough to matter to a broad spectrum of the population.
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    After five years of Pantawid, what next?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    When the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program was designed the government publicly promised to limit to five years the giving of the education and health grants. This five year limit is almost over for the first set of beneficiaries by 2013. The natural policy question then is would it be wise to keep the promise or would an extension be better?
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    Feasibility of mortgage-backed securitization for the underserved housing market in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    This paper draws lessons from international practices to determine the feasibility of developing mortgage-backed securitization (MBS) to expand housing finance to the underserved market in the country.
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    Relative price effects on decompositions of change in aggregate labor productivity

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    It is economic doctrine that relative prices help in guiding resource allocation. Thus, it appears surprising that in determining intersectoral reallocation effects in decompositions of change in aggregate labor productivity (ALP), most decompositions do not explicitly account for the effects of differences or changes in sectoral relative prices.

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