Being intended for students interested with the dynamics of interaction of the macroeconomy, income distribution and poverty and who are users of data and econometric models, this article highlights the conceptual weaknesses, measurement errors and biases of national accounts and household...

This paper presents a summary of the large and growing literature about donor experience in attempting to meet employment and income objectives through assistance to the rural non-farm enterprises. Key conclusions about these experiences are presented stressing those that have implications for...

This article analyzes the capacity of LGUs to issue securities under the regulatory framework offered by PD 752 and the 1991 LGC. A qualitative analysis of the regulations and requirements of the securities market has been performed. This is extended to a case study of bond issued by the Cebu...

This article presents the revision made to the 1991 System of National Accounts that initially covered the years 1980-1987. The whole link series from 1946-1990 has been completed while the sources and methods of the revised system are still being finalized for publications.

This paper reports the empirical results of an attempt to develop a statistical classification system for rural banks using common financial ratios as predictor variables. Though it provides a formal and fast way to classify banks, the classical techniques utilized in this paper should not be...

This article presents the revision made to the 1991 System of National Accounts that initially covered the years 1980-1987. The whole link series from 1946-1990 has been completed while the sources and methods of the revised system are still being finalized for publications.

Mainly due to the dearth of available data, this article empirically illustrates that the practice of using household expenditures/incomes in assessing aggregate poverty tends to its overestimation. In the absence of reliable equivalence estimates, household size should be normalized to improve...

What has not been explored in the traditional measures of poverty is the extensive set of categorical variables that indicate standard of living and are already available from existing survey data. What precluded researchers from deriving poverty and welfare gauges from these data is the...

This paper reports the empirical results of an attempt to develop a statistical classification system for rural banks using common financial ratios as predictor variables. Though it provides a formal and fast way to classify banks, the classical techniques utilized in this paper should not be...

The beginning of 1970s has witnessed the country’s political and economic predicament. To address these, the 1989 government has succumbed with the IMF program. For a better understanding of the immediate short-run impact of the adjustment programs, this article tests simple models that show...