This paper attempts to measure the benefit to the Philippines of its availment of the WTO-MFN treatment. The methodology involves computing the reduction in the country's merchandise exports if the country loses MFN treatment, depicted in this paper as an increase by five percentage points of...

The paper first reviews some of the major studies on internal migration in East and Southeast Asian countries, highlighting its relationship to development, particularly to the role of policies in the evolution of migration patterns. The central theme that emerges is that the pattern and effects...

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Labor migration began to be promoted in the late ’60s or early ’70s by a number of Asian countries plagued by problems of unemployment, poverty, and scant foreign exchange. However, labor export was generally intended to be a stopgap measure while governments were trying to implement policy...