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Development Research News is a bi-monthly publication of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).  It highlights the findings and recommendations of PIDS research projects and important policy issues discussed during PIDS seminars.
 
 
DRN 2008 Vol. XXVI
No. 3		 Post-2008 CARP: Extension with Critical Reforms, May-June 2008
DRN 2008 Vol. XXVI
No. 2		 OFW Children: Wanting for More Attention, March-April 2008
DRN 2008 Vol. XXVI
No. 1		 What's in Store for the Philippine Economy in 2008? January-February 2008
DRN 2007 Vol. XXV
No. 6		 It's All in the Contract: a Closer Look at BOT, November-December 2007
DRN 2007 Vol. XXV
No. 5		 A Framework for Regional and Local Development, September-October 2007
DRN 2007 Vol. XXV
No. 4		 A Post-Crisis Prescription: Being One Group Matters, July-August 2007
DRN 2007 Vol. XXV
No. 3		 Understanding International Labor Migration in East Asia, May-June 2007
DRN 2007 Vol. XXV
No. 2		 Has Land Reform Changed Land Ownership Concentration? March - April 2007
DRN 2007 Vol. XXV
No. 1		 The Philippine Economy in 2007: Is a Breakthrough in the Horizon? January - February 2007
DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV
No. 6		 E-commerce in the Philippines: a Preliminary Stocktaking, November - December 2006
DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV
No. 5		 When Less (Access) Leads to More...On Contraceptive Use in the Philippines, September - October 2006
DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV
No. 4-b		 Costs and Spillovers of the AFP vs. NPA Armed Conflicts: Metro Manila - Rizal Case Study, July - August 2006
DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV
No. 4-a		 The Bias Against Muslims: a Creeping Perception, July - August 2006
DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV
No. 3		 Can the Philippine Film Industry Follow Bollywood? May - June 2006
DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV
No. 2-b		 Ideologically Motivated Conflicts in the Philippines: Exploring the Possibility of an Early Warning System, March - April 2006
DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV
No. 2-a		 Cross-border Trade in Higher Education: What Are Our Chances? March - April 2006
DRN 2006 Vol. XXIV
No. 1		 Driving the Philippine Economy in 2006, January - February 2006
DRN 2005 Vol. XXIII
No. 1		 Forecasts, Predictions...The Philippine Economy in 2005, January - February 2005
DRN 2004 Vol. XXII
No. 4-b		 Proposed RP-US FTA May Center on Telecom and Financial Sectors, July - August 2004
DRN 2004 Vol. XXII
No. 4-a		 Poverty and Environmental Damage in Philippine Agriculture: Do Trade Policies Matter? July - August, 2004
DRN 2004 Vol. XXII
No. 3-b		 Export Leadership: Does Success in One Breed Failure in Another? May - June 2004
 
DRN 2004 Vol. XXII
No. 3-a		 Direction or Drift? The Philippine Economy after 2004, May - June 2004
 
DRN 2004 Vol. XXII
No. 2		 Implementation Crucial to Sustainable Environmental Management: On Development Policies, Institutions and Upland Environment of Southeast Asia, March - April 2004
 
DRN 2004 Vol. XXII
No. 1		 Philippines 2004, a 2003 Replay
 
DRN 2003 Vol. XXI
No. 6		 The Outlook for a Philippine-Japan Economic Partnership
DRN 2003 Vol. XXI
No. 5		 Responsive Policymaking through Policy Research
DRN 2003 Vol. XXI
No. 4		 Fighting Poverty: The Impact of Philippine Initiatives
DRN 2003 Vol. XXI
No. 3		 RP Domestic Shipping Industry: Still Berthed?
DRN 2003 Vol. XXI
No. 2		 Tax Effort: Going Down...Down...
DRN 2003 Vol. XXI
No. 1		 Economy to Plateau in 2003
 
DRN 2002 Vol. XX
No.6		 The Cases of Angat, Laguna, Batangas and Cebu City: Competing Uses of Water
DRN 2002 Vol. XX
No.5		 Tuition Hike, Education Strife?
DRN 2002 Vol. XX
No.4		 Is There Still a Need to Legislate? A Water Policy Agenda for the Philippines
DRN 2002 Vol. XX
No.3		 Rent Control in Metro Manila: Houses for Rent
DRN 2002 Vol. XX
No.2		 Statistics Work: Of Grains, Fish and Numbers
DRN 2002 Vol. XX
No.1		 Where to now, Philippines?
 
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 6		 New Forms of Financing the Fiscal Deficit
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 5		 From the Local Bank's Perspective: Feeling the Liberalization Effects
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 4-b		 Rice is very Expensive in the Philippines... and Hunger is Deepening
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 4-a		 Confronting the Garbage Problem with Economic Solutions
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 3-f		 Wanted: More Filipino S&T Workers
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 3-e		 To Boost Microfinance... BSP Urged to take Risk-based Approach in Regulating Small-scale Creditors
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 3-d		 RP Economy Suffering from HIV/AIDS?
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 3-c		 Rx for RP's Auto Industry: Market Liberalization to Spur Sweeping Reforms
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 3-b		 Labor Expert Recommends: A Stronger Tripartism in RP
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 3-a		 E-commerce Beckons: The ASEAN Responds
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 2-f		 To Spur E-commerce Growth: Government Pushes Low-cost Access to Internet
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 2-e		 Preventing Another Asian Crisis
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 2-d		 Globalization and the Filipino Worker: Are Filipino Professionals ready for the World?
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 2-c		 Globalization and the Filipino Worker: The Search for Greener Pasture
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 2-b		 A Cartel in RP's Cement Industry?
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 2-a		 Overcoming Obstacles: Land Development in the Philippines
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 1-c		 China's Economic Boom: A boon to RP, Other ASEAN nations
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 1-b		 Dr. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo: The next Philippine President could be an Economist
DRN 2001 Vol. XIX
No. 1-a		 The Philippine Economy: What Lies Ahead in 2001
 
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 6-d The Interest Rate Cure: Here We Go Again
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 6-c What is Oil Deregulation?
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 6-b Exchange is no Change: Is Oil Deregulation a Failure
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 6-a The President’s 2001 Budget: Making Difficult Choices
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 5 Providing the Infrastructure for Research and Networking
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 4-d Governance and Economics: When Legislators and Researchers Meet
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 4-c Measuring Poverty in Asia
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 4-b Political Economy 101: Philippine-China Relations
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 4-a Weathering the 1997 Asian Crisis: How the Social Services Survived
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 3-c Introducing the GIS: A New Instrument in Analyzing and Presenting Socioeconomic Data
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 3-b Creating Opportunities through Agri-biotechnology
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 3-a Harnessing the Tools of Agri-Biotechnology
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 2-e What Inflation is About?
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 2-d A Challenge for Health in the 21st Century
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 2-c Toward a More Responsive Research Agenda for Development
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 2-b Urbanization in a Decentralized Framework: The Lure of the City
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 2-a Metro Manila: On the Road to Clean Air in 2000
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 1-d What is Wrong with the 1997 GSIS Act?
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 1-c Monetary Tools: A Choice Between Traditional and Nontraditional
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 1-b Is there a Credit Crunch in the Philippines?
DRN 2000 Vol. XVIII No. 1-a The Philippine Economy in 2000: Prospects and Key Issues
 
DRN 1999 Vol. XVII No. 6 The 1997 Regional Financial Crisis: Its Social Impact on the Philippines
DRN 1999 Vol. XVII No. 5 Scaling the Economic Mast
DRN 1999 Vol. XVII No. 4 DOH Presents Agenda for Health Care Financing
DRN 1999 Vol. XVII No. 3 Outsmarting Another Crisis: An Early Warning System for the Philippines
DRN 1999 Vol. XVII No. 2 Trade-related Aspects of IPR: A Major WTO Concern and Its Implications on the Philippines
DRN 1999 Vol. XVII No. 1 The Philippine Economy in 1999: Prospects and Key Issues
 
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 6-e		 Local Initiatives in Health Service Delivery Continue to Evolve
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 6-d		 Valencia Medical and Hospitalization Care Plan Sharing the Responsibility of Health Care Delivery
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 6-c		 Guihulngan's Peso for Health Program: Community Project Pursues Health Agenda
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 6-b		 Bukidnon Health Insurance Program Meeting Health Needs Through Cost-Sharing
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 6-a		 Inter-LGU Cooperation not Renationalization, is the Answer to Health Service Delivery
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 5-c		 Following the Freedom Trail
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 5-b		 Philippine R&D at the Tailend in Global Competitiveness
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 5-a		 The Philippine Economy in the First Quarter Period of the Estrada Administration
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 4-e		 Will China Devalue its Currency?
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 4-d		 Roles of the Visayas and Mindanao in the Revolutionary Struggle
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 4-c		 Was the Peso Overvalued?
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 4-b		 The Financial Crisis in East Asia
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI No. 4-a The Philippine Economy in Review: 1986-1987
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 3-b		 Influencing Environment-Friendly Cropping through Market Prices
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 3-a		 Who Pays for Our Health?
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI No. 2-b Local Government Administration in Light of the Decentralization Thrust:Tthe Case of Quezon City and other Metro Manila LGUs
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 2-a		 What's in for the Economy in 1998? An Outlook for the Philippines
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI
No. 1-b		 The Asian Financial Crisis: A Case of Boon Turning to Bane
DRN 1998 Vol. XVI No. 1-a Macroeconomic Challenges Facing the Philippines?Industrialization Drive
 
DRN 1997
Vol. XV
No. 5-a		 Sustaining the Philippine Economic Resurgence
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 6		 Communities Help Themselves: Health Care Initiatives in Mindanao
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 5-c		 Integrating Culture in Economic Development: an Agenda for Nationbuilding
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 5-b		 Economic Liberalization and Foreign Exchange Management
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 4-c		 Textile Industry: In a Bad Shape
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 4-b		 Restructuring Tariffs: Toward a More Competitive Philippines
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 4-a		 Addressing the European Union's (EU) Widening Dilemma the APEC Way
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 3-b		 What to Expect After a Reduction in Tariff
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 3-a		 A New Environment for the Health Sector
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 2-b		 Capital Surge: Boon or Bane to the Developing Economies
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 2-a		 Developing the Technology for Global Market Competition
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 1-b		 Microfinance Institutions in Poverty Alleviation: A Case of the Blind Leading the Blind?
DRN 1997 Vol. XV
No. 1-a		 Can the Philippines Improve its International Competitiveness?
 
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV No.1-d After Osaka and into Subic
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV No.1-c Solutions that Work: A Strategy to Fight Poverty
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV
No. 6-b		 Government Role in Economic Growth: Finding the Right Mix of Intervention
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV
No. 6-a		 For APEC Member Economies: Making Food as Another Prime Concern
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV
No. 5		 Financing the Social Sectors: Increase to Come from Budget Restructure
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV
No. 4-b		 Food: Is a Crisis Looming
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV
No. 4-a		 The Philippine Telecommunications Industry
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV
No. 3		 APEC in the Light of Changes in Labor Migration
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV
No. 2		 Deepening the Asia-Europe Partnership
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV
No. 1-b		 Health Care Financing: Some Lessons from International Experience
DRN 1996 Vol. XIV
No. 1-a		 Total Factor Productivity of Philippine Manufacturing Industries
 
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 6-c		 Private Health Insurance as Alternative Financing Source
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 6-b		 An Evaluation of Medicare
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 6-a		 The Challenge of Health Care Financing Reforms
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 5-d		 Health Care Financing Reforms
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 5-b		 Some Notes on a Municipal Credit System
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 5-a		 The Philippines in AFTA: Opportunities and Challenges
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII No. 5- c Inflation Forecasts for 1996
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 4-b		 The Government's Dilemma: To Increase or not to Increase Oil Prices
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 4-a		 The Early Years of Code Implementation
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 3-e		 Investing in the Philippines
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 3-d		 Should Workers Worry About GATT-WTO?
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 3-c		 World Trade Developments: Is the Philippines Up to the Challenge
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 3-b		 Social Correctness in the 1990s: Newfangled Arguments for Protectionism
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 3-a		 The New Overseas Employment Program: Effectively Managing the Labor Migration Process
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 2-d		 Labor Migration Issues: Government Seeks Means to Protect Workers
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 2-c		 Philippines's Initiative and HRD Program in APEC
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 2-b		 The Tasks and Realities of Science and Technology Development
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 2-a		 The HRD Challenges of Overseas Employment
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 1-d		 The Countryside: Trekking the Long Road to Boom Times
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 1-c		 Greening Two Countries
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII No. 1-b Capital Flows: When it Rains, It Pours
DRN 1995 Vol. XIII
No. 1-a		 Easing Out Road Blocks to Growth
 
DRN 1994 Vol. XII
No. 6		 Understanding the GATT and the Issues Beyond
DRN 1994 Vol. XII
No. 5		 Outlook of Supply and Demand: Metro Manila and the Philippines
DRN 1994 Vol. XII
No. 4		 In Search of Development Equitably Enjoyed by All
DRN 1994 Vol. XII
No. 3		 Regional Cross-order Cooperation: A New Dimension in Regional Planning
DRN 1994 Vol. XII
No. 2		 ASEAN: The Upswing Continues
DRN 1994 Vol. XII
No. 1		 Toward a “Leapfrogging” Strategy for the Philippines
 
DRN 1993 Vol. XI
No.3		 EO 8: Boon or Bane to the Corn-Livestock Industry?
DRN 1993 Vol. XI
No.1		 Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to the Philippines
DRN 1993 Vol. XI
No. 6		 Of Money Supply and Price Trends
DRN 1993 Vol. XI
No. 5		 Owning a House in the Metropolis: Still an Elusive Dream?
DRN 1993 Vol. XI
No. 4-b		 Enhancing the Use of Research
DRN 1993 Vol. XI
No. 4-a		 Communicating Policy Issues for Development
DRN 1993 Vol. XI
No. 2		 The APEX CGE Model of the Philippine Economy
 
DRN 1992 Vol. X
No. 6		 Poverty: Finding the Whys
DRN 1992 Vol. X
No. 5		 Fiscal Decentralization and the Local Government Code of 1991
DRN 1992 Vol. X
No. 4		 Emerging Financial Innovations
DRN 1992 Vol. X
No. 3-b		 Sustainable Development: An International Perspective
DRN 1992 Vol. X
No. 3-a		 The Greening of Trade
DRN 1992 Vol. X
No. 2		 A Review of the Remaining Regulated Commodities
DRN 1992 Vol. X
No. 1		 Improving the National Accounts
 
DRN 1991 Vol. IX
No. 6		 Philippine Economy is Poised to Gain in a Regional Cooperation Scheme
DRN 1991 Vol. IX
No. 5		 Managing a Structural Reform Program: How the Indonesians Succeeded
DRN 1991 Vol. IX
No. 4		 The Transportation Situation: How are we Coping?
DRN 1991 Vol. IX
No. 3		 PS 2000: A Program for Renewed Vigor in the Civil Service
DRN 1991 Vol. IX
No. 2		 Coping with Crisis
DRN 1991 Vol. IX
No. 1		 Debt Relief in a Politicized Economy
 
DRN 1990 Vol. VIII No. 6 ASEAN Countries Aim Increased Participation in International Banking
DRN 1990 Vol. VIII
No. 5		 Deviations from Government Financial Accountability
DRN 1990 Vol. VIII
No. 4		 Rice Outlook: What it Takes to Feed the Filipinos
DRN 1990 Vol. VIII
No. 3		 The Southeast Asian Economies: Issues and Prospects for the Next Decade
DRN 1990 Vol. VIII
No. 2		 Issues and Initiatives in Health Care
DRN 1990 Vol. VIII No. 1 Economists Forecast Outlook of Philippine Economy for 1990-1991
 
DRN 1989 Vol. VII
No. 6		 Study Shows Higher Savings Among Rural than Urban Areas
DRN 1989 Vol. VII
No. 5		 Educational Campaign Needed: Says Study on Use and Demand for Drugs
DRN 1989 Vol. VII
No. 4		 Economics of the Environment: Issues in the Management of Pollution
DRN 1989 Vol. VII
No. 3		 Housing: Addressing the Need
DRN 1989 Vol. VII
No. 2		 Economic Recovery: Issues and Problems
DRN 1989 Vol. VII
No. 1		 The Philippines in the Pacific Century: A Strategy for Development Diplomacy
 
DRN 1988 Vol. VI
No. 6		 Economic and Environmental Aspects of Public Health
DRN 1988 Vol. VI
No. 5		 The Philippine Tariff Reform Program: Is a Policy Reversal on Hand?
DRN 1988 Vol. VI
No. 4		 Summaries of Several PIDS Research Studies
DRN 1988 Vol. VI
No. 3		 ASEAN: Prospects for Regional Economic Cooperation
DRN 1988 Vol. VI
No. 2		 Summaries of Several PIDS Research Studies
DRN 1988 Vol. VI
No. 1		 The Implications of the Stock Market Crash and the Philippine Economy
 
DRN 1987 Vol. V
No. 6		 Science and Technology in National Economic Recovery and Growth
DRN 1987 Vol. V
No. 5		 Media and Development
DRN 1987 Vol. V
No. 4		 Measuring Productivity and Development
DRN 1987 Vol. V
No. 3		 Agrarian Reform in the Philippines
DRN 1987 Vol. V
No. 2		 The Management of External Debt
DRN 1987 Vol. V
No. 1		 Industrial Peace: The Elusive Rara Avis
 
DRN 1986 Vol. IV
No. 6		 Savings Mobilization in the Philippines: Focus on the Rural Sector
DRN 1986 Vol. IV
No. 5		 Import Liberalization: Concepts and Issues
DRN 1986 Vol. IV
No. 4		 The ESIA/WID Micro Component Project
DRN 1986 Vol. IV
No. 3		 The ESIA/WID Macro Component Project
DRN 1986 Vol. IV
No. 2		 Issues in Philippine Food and Nutrition Policy
DRN 1986 Vol. IV
No. 1		 Recent Econometric Models in the Philippines
 
DRN 1985 Vol. III
No. 6		 The Philippine Foreign Trade: Structure and Change
DRN 1985 Vol. III
No. 5		 Policies and Research Issues on Energy in the Philippines: The 1980s
DRN 1985 Vol. III
No. 4		 Philippine Public Enterprise in the 80s: Problems and Issues
DRN 1985 Vol. III
No. 3		 Agricultural Policies for Development
DRN 1985 Vol. III
No. 2		 The Balance of Payments Crisis and the Economy
DRN 1985 Vol. III
No. 1		 Summaries of Studies on Forest Resources Management
 
DRN 1984 Vol. II
Nos. 1-12		 Summaries of Studies on Public Finance
 
DRN 1983 Vol. I
Nos. 4&5		 Summaries of Studies on Population Development
DRN 1983 Vol. I
Nos. 2&3		 Summaries of Studies on Agriculture and Philippine Development
DRN 1983 Vol. I
No. 1		 Summaries of Studies on Money and Banking Sector
 
 

Source: Philippine Institute for Development Studies