This paper assesses the distributional impact of the recent VAT reform in the Philippines and evaluates alternative methods to mitigate the effects of the reform on poor households. The reform was progressive and relatively well targeted. To alleviate the impact of the reform on the poor,...

This Selected Issues paper highlights the Philippine growth performance led by the services sector. Average GDP growth is higher in the post-Asian crisis period in the Philippines, while the majority of the Philippines’s regional peers have experienced substantially lower growth in the...

Purpose – The energy demand of growing population is on rise despite the fact that conventional energy reserves are limited and exhaustive in nature. To quench the ever-needing demand of energy, there is an urgent need to find out new energy options. In this regard, role of bioenergy...

This paper investigates if the R&D of an industry changes due to the R&D of an industry's suppliers and/or demanders. Using an annual industry-level panel of manufacturing R&D in the United States, I find that regressing the R&D of an industry on the lagged values of another industry's R&D...

Las matrices de Contabilidad Social constituyen una importante base de datos que proporcionan información rele¬vante sobre la estructura económica y social de un área para un determinado período de tiempo. Esta información permite realizar un análisis integral de la estructura productiva...

The aim of the Kyoto Protocol is to reduce the growth of greenhouse gases emissions. In this context, it is very important to characterize the economic sectors according to environmental indicators to properly design environmental policies; Moreover, it could be advisable to analyze the...