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    Ten years after: financial crisis redux or constructive financial integration and cooperation

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    In response to the 1997 East Asian financial crisis many schemes were initiated to reform the international financial architecture. The proposed reforms had two wide-ranging objectives: (i) to prevent currency and banking crises and better manage them when they occur; and (ii) to support adequate provision of net private and public flows to developing countries, particularly low-income ones.
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    Sustaining Philippine advantage in business process outsourcing

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    This study looked at the sustainability of the growth and development of business process outsourcing (BPO) in the Philippines. It was prompted by the sector`s spectacular growth in several of its subsectors, mainly contact call centers, medical transcription, animation, and software development.
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    Has liberalization strengthened the link between services and manufacturing?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Globalisation and pressure from increased competition have led to “splintering” of in-house services from formerly integrated manufacturing firms in developed economies and, at the same time, to an increase in “outsourcing” of these same services.
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    Assessing the competitiveness of the Philippine auto parts industry

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    In its effort to develop the domestic manufacture of automotive parts and components, the Philippine government adopted local content requirements which protected the industry for almost thirty years. The government also imposed high tariffs coupled with import restrictions on the importation of motor vehicles.
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    Contractual arrangements in Philippine fisheries

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Economists have begun the quest for explanations of contractual choices in developing countries and especially for pervasiveness of informal credit and insurance arrangements and interlinkages observed in agricultural and fishing contracts.
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    The determination of contracts in agricultural economies

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    This paper aims to analyse how contracts are determined and modified given diverse agricultural settings and to examine the implications of these changes with respect to their efficiency, distribution and sustainability.
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    Towards a strategy for manufactured exports to Japan

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The Philippines has become an export-oriented economy, with exports increasing in significance. The electronics industry, in particular, is a showcase of this newfound export prowess. Traditionally, comparative advantage is the takeoff point for understanding trade patterns in economic theory.
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    Philippines-Japan economic partnership: where is the Philippines in Japan's plan

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    Going by the statements of the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan’s top priority with regards to regional and bilateral economic partnerships (EPA) is to carryout the framework of its EPA with ASEAN by 2012 or earlier. It must be stressed that Japan is economically interested in the whole Southeast Asia, and not in any single country in it.
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    A note on the competitiveness debate

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Competitiveness is technically a firm level concept. However, it is oftentimes extended to the national level--the idea of a country's 'international competitiveness' with the following analogies: market share-->export share of country; price-->real effective exchange rate or unit labor cost; profitability-->long-run economic growth.
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    China's WTO entry: effects on its economy and implications for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The Philippines’ bilateral trade with China has increased steadily since China adopted the open door policy in late 1979. The growth has been particularly rapid in the nineties when Chinafocused its liberalisation on foreign trade.

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