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Children and the labor force participation and earnings of parents in the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005How children affects the labor force participation and earnings of mothers and fathers can spell the difference on whether additional children are can expect the needed care or not. When parents exert more effort with additional children, then their impact of on the welfare of the family will be mitigated.DocumentImpact of the global financial and economic crisis on the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010The 2008 global economic and financial crisis spawned a synchronized recession among industrialized countries leading to a contraction in world trade. Exports from developing countries fell sharply dragging many of them into the global economic downturn.DocumentPhilippine Computable General Equilibrium Model (PCGEM)
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000DocumentSpatial stochastic frontier models
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) helps explain producer’s efficiency and provide an alternative paradigm to econometric analysis when some assumptions fail.DocumentThe 2008 financial crisis and potential output in Asia: impact and policy implications
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010Monitoring the behavior of potential output helps policymakers implement appropriate policies in response to an economic crisis. In the short-run, estimates of the output gap will guide the timing of implementation and withdrawal of stimulus measures.DocumentProspects for regional cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean region and the Asia and Pacific region: perspective from East Asia
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010The economic success of the East Asian region during the past four decades and its proven resilience during times of crisis demonstrate that regional integration, supported by both open trade and regional cooperation, is a key factor for sustained growth and development.DocumentInnovations in financing food security
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010Food production will have to increase by 70% in 2050 to keep up with a global population that is projected to grow from 6 billion to 9 billion (UN, 2009). Given the physical and environmental constraints on increasing land and water use for food production and other economic activities, agricultural productivity will have to substantially improve to meet increasing demand for food.DocumentThe Philippines` absorptive capacity for foreign aid
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010Aid from donor to recipient countries on per capita basis declined from the decade of the 1980s to the 1990s. The main reason cited for this decline was “aid fatigue syndrome”, which refers to the serious doubts about the effectiveness of aid for development emerged after years of increasing aid flow during the preceding decades.DocumentDevelopment of tax forecasting models: Corporate and individual income taxes
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001Assessment of the fiscal sector performance in the last decade has often laid the blame on poor revenue performance to below-target tax collection performance of government tax collection agencies, frequently attributed to graft and corruption among its officials and employees. The attribution, generally, is warranted.