This article is part of the NEDA-PIDS Seminar-Workshop on the Philippine System of National Accounts. It discusses data linkages, especially those that are related to improvements in national account (NA) estimation methodology. It contains the following: the application of the flow account...

This article is part of the NEDA-PIDS Seminar-Workshop on the Philippine System of National Accounts. It discusses data linkages, especially those that are related to improvements in national account (NA) estimation methodology. It contains the following: the application of the flow account...

This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics at the Philippine International Convention Center on December 13-14, 1982. It presents preliminary findings from a small-scale test to determine the reporting errors in the ISH regarding cash and income-in-kind utilizing an...

This paper describes the Philippine demographic situation with a focus on the findings from the 1990 Census and the recent intercensal period (1980-1990). Results include the decline in absolute numbers of farmers, fishers and forest workers over the period of interest. Roughly half of the...

The enactment of Retail Trade Liberalization Act of 2000 (RA 8762), which liberalizes the Philippine retail trade business, was not based solely on the overall thrust of the government to pursue market-oriented policies. It also stemmed from the observation that the sector lacked competition....

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic and Social Impact Analysis/Women in Development (ESIA/WID) and the Food Systems Program of the East-West Center Resource Systems Institute (RSI). It focuses on two...

In her final note for the PJD 2009 second semester issue, Ms. Jennifer Liguton bids farewell as the Philippine Journal of Development`s (PJD) managing editor. Ms. Liguton has served as its managing editor for the past three decades of the Journal`s publication. She has been involved from its...

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in the Philippines” sponsored jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Economic and Development Authority, the Philippine Institute for Development...

This paper is an assessment of the constraints and opportunities for capturing the gains from the devolution of environmental and natural resource (ENR) management and for engendering a more sustainable ENR management system in the Philippines. It provides a brief characterization of fiscal...

Part One of the Osaka Action Agenda has clarified the implications of the basic political commitment to free and open trade and investment in the Bogor Declaration and has set out operational guiding principles and a well-developed strategy of implementation. This paper seeks to build on the...