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  Customs brokerage services and trade facilitation: a review of regulatory coherence

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013

  The study looks at the rarely studied customs brokerage activity in the Philippines and its role in facilitating trade given the ongoing push to modernise customs administration. It analyses how the customs brokerage profession is being regulated and synthesises insights on opposing views on the importance of customs brokers in trade facilitation.
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  Regional comprehensive economic partnership: reform challenges and key tasks for the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  The ASEAN + 6 countries are currently engaged in negotiation for a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). If successfully negotiated RCEP will result into the world’s biggest trading bloc, 40% of world trade, that offers significant benefits to
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  The ASEAN economic community and the Philippines: implementation, outcomes, impacts, and ways forward (Full Report)

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012

  Assessing ASEAN`s progress toward the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) defined by the AEC Blueprint is necessary and instructive. This paper constitutes the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the AEC Blueprint for the Philippines.
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  The ASEAN economic community and the Philippines: implementation, outcomes, impacts, and ways forward (Integrative Report)

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012

  This Integrative Report summarizes and synthesizes the key results and analyses contained in the AEC Blueprint MTR for the Philippines, which also incorporates key results of earlier ERIA studies on how to further improve the AEC Scorecard et al. 2010; Medalla et al. 2011).
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  Conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines: is it reaching the extremely poor?

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012

  The Philippine government shows its serious effort to combat poverty through the continuing expansion of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the Philippines` version of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program modeled by Latin American countries.
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  Getting ready for the ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Philippine investment liberalization and facilitation

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013

  The principal investment cooperation program of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) has been the ASEAN Investment Area which has been expanded to the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (ACIA).
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  ASEAN Economic Community 2015: SME development - narrowing development gap measure

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013

  This paper evaluates the implementation of the 2010-2015 ASEAN Strategic Action Plan for SME Development and the 2004-2009 ASEAN Policy Blueprint for SME Development. The initial interviews and survey results yielded low average effectiveness scores for the ASEAN Strategic Action Plan for SME Development.
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  ASEAN Economic Community 2015: capacity-building imperatives for services liberalization

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013

  The Philippine economy’s output structure is characterized by a relatively large services sector.  This paper aims to assess and determine the capacity-building needs required to liberalize trade in services in the Philippines.
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  Governmental fscal support for financing long-term infrastructure projects in ASEAN countries

  2013

  In the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis, public-private partnership (PPP) have somewhat slowed down in ASEAN countries but now in trying to come back to a rapidly growing region with vast investment and profit opportunities, they face certain issues that have to be effectively addressed.
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  Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (PJEPA): an initial ex-post review

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013

  While it is too early to undertake rigorous quantitative analysis on the impact of the Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (PJEPA) on the Philippines, this initial ex-post study concludes that based on several key indicators the country has not suffered major adjustment costs because of the PJEPA.

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