S - Matches

Ever wonder why one product brand enjoys a more prominent shelf location in a particular retail establishment than another brand? Would such arrangeme..

Food policy analysts and government policymakers have different views on food security. Those who decide for agriculture in less developed countries e..

What differentiates the GNP from the GDP? Where are the OFW remittances reflected? How does one measure these income account concepts? This Economic I..

Can the Philippines be another Bollywood? Can it follow the relative success of India and other countries such as China, Korea, and Japan in penetrati..

Trade liberalization--particularly tariff reduction, which is the focus of this paper--triggers changes in both sectoral price ratios and domestic-for..

This paper looks at the regulatory reforms in the electricity and downstream oil industries, two important inputs to the production process that were ..

Coastal resources management (CRM) has flourished as a management approach for attaining a more sustainable form of economic development in the coasta..

Recognizing that the lack of financial resources to support the provision of basic services and to fund local development plans is a critical concern ..

This paper results from a series of international workshops that brought together CBMS and GRB practitioners to discuss how the community-based monito..

The paper determines the factors affecting the export performance of firms in three main manufacturing sectors in the Philippines. Specifically, firm-..

This paper looks at the different paradigms of decentralization for drinking water supply in the Philippines and its effectiveness in poverty alleviat..

Productivity, whether defined at a firm/industry level or at an economy-wide level, is a key instrument in evaluating and monitoring performance. It i..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

This paper examines the country鈥檚 investment incentive program for foreign investors and its success in attracting substantial FDI inflows. The anal..

This paper examines the effect of land reform and land transfer actions of farmer beneficiaries on land ownership concentration. A case study of two r..