The aggregate nature of the accounts of the social accounting method constructed for the Philippine economy has led to the macroeconomic Social Accounting Framework. This article reports on its construction method and its relation to existing data sources. Some general conclusions about data...

One of the recent European developments is the plan of creating a single market implying the removal of obstacles to trade in goods, services, capital and labor. Hence, it is worthwhile to examine the impact of such move to a small country like the Philippines, the growth of which depends...

In the nonperformance of the formal financial sector to cater to the needs of some groups, informal measures have been its substitute. The informal credit system becomes a vital channel of credit to small and poor borrowers and in the mobilization of rural savings through innovative mechanisms....

This article is a review attempting to provide the background for a more detailed and rigorous examination, both theoretical and empirical, of the agrarian reform and interlinking issues. It deals largely on market interlinking and credit services, land market and credit interlocking. A welfare...

The advent of new techniques in genetic manipulation has sparked discussions in IPR involving biological products and processes. This article, which has been presented during the DOST-PIDS Seminar-Discussion on “Intellectual Property Rights: Policy Issues and Perspectives” on December 13,...