Inasmuch as plant breeders deserve remuneration for their labor and investment efforts, there are also reasons against the institution of plant variety protection system. This article, which has been presented during the DOST-PIDS Seminar-Discussion on “Intellectual Property Rights: Policy...

To educate Filipinos on IPR, this article provides a rigorous discussion on the Philippine patent system and patent law. It identifies the patentable grant, the requirements of patentability and records a step-by-step patent application. This article has been presented during the DOST-PIDS...

An earlier version of this paper has been presented in 1989 at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in Kuala Lumpur. This paper tests the causality issue between defense spending and economic growth in the Philippines. The results of the tests are used to provide implications...

To stimulate technological development, it is necessary that intellectual property be clearly rewarded. It is not, therefore, surprising that international fora have discussed the issues of IPR and patents. This article, which has been presented during the DOST-PIDS Seminar-Discussion on...

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...

To educate Filipinos on IPR, this article provides a rigorous discussion on the Philippine patent system and patent law. It identifies the patentable grant, the requirements of patentability and records a step-by-step patent application. This article has been presented during the DOST-PIDS...

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...

Inasmuch as plant breeders deserve remuneration for their labor and investment efforts, there are also reasons against the institution of plant variety protection system. This article, which has been presented during the DOST-PIDS Seminar-Discussion on “Intellectual Property Rights: Policy...

An earlier version of this paper has been presented in 1989 at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in Kuala Lumpur. This paper tests the causality issue between defense spending and economic growth in the Philippines. The results of the tests are used to provide implications...