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    An assessment of the absorptive capacity of agencies involved in the public works sector

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    This study evaluates the absorptive capacity of a government agency for domestic and external funds. It takes the case of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), one of the biggest recipients of funds from government and foreign sources.
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    Development of regional production and logistic networks in East Asia: the case of the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Regional production networks and local production linkages are important not only for the generation of industrial activity through investment flows but also as essential sources of new information and technology.
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    Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA): Toward a framework for regional economic integration

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    With less than two years after its ratification, many of the economic gains expected under JPEPA have yet to be realized. But while critics may be quick to judge its failure due to this seeming lack of progress, neither have there been costs and dislocations that should have been more immediately evident. Moreover, the recent trends in trade and investments appear encouraging.
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    Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 2015: challenges for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    ASEAN member countries are moving to wards achieving the ASEAN Economic Community with the timeline set at 2015. It is therefore important for policymakers in the region to sustain the momentum—or perhaps even accelerate the pace— towards establishing the AEC. Policy measures are being implemented based on the AEC Blueprint agreed upon in 2007.
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    The role of the private sector in regional economic integration: a view from the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    The private sector is the driver of growth in most ASEAN economies. It is therefore expected to play a significant role in the process of economic integration in ASEAN. In the Philippines, the private sector has dominated the economy, contributing about 95 percent of GDP, but it has not lived up to its potential.
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    Philippine competition policy in perspective

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    Although justification for competition policies is well founded in the economic literature, there is a need to understand their implications more fully, brought about not just by what is happening in the global arena but even more importantly by various comprehensive policy reforms that have been implemented in recent years.
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    Tagum City: Development at the Crossroads

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Population processes and outcomes (in this case, urbanization) influences and changes the development of an area and vice versa. In the case of Tagum City, its growing economy is presumed to be attracting considerable movement of people which proves to present both opportunities and challenges for the local government.
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    Local Governance and the challenges of economic distress: the case of Iligan City

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Trends in economic development influence population outcomes in an area. Increasing economic opportunities that are typically linked to industrialization enhance the attractiveness of a location and result to population increases. The inverse of this process could also be true, that is, an economic distress could hit an area and force its residents to leave and seek better forts.
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    Improving the financial management of local economic enterprises

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Local economic enterprises (LEEs) may include public markets, slaughter houses, hospitals, public cemeteries, parking areas, sports, recreational and cultural facilities, public utilities such as water and power supply and distribution and telecommunications, garbage collection and disposal, and public transport and terminal services, among others.
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    Metro Cebu: A metropolitan area in need of coordinative body

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Urbanization and rapid increase in population in Metro Cebu brought about increased demand for basic services and infrastructure. The creation of the Metro Cebu Development Council comprising of the four (4) cities and six (6) municipalities in the eastern part of the Cebu Province, as an organizational structure, attempts to address these problems.

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