This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and human capital on economic growth in the Philippines. An economic growth model for the Philippines is specified and estimated by a canonical cointegrating technique and employing annual data spanning the period...

This article focuses on understanding the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction and wellbeing measures of health, education and living standards in Northeastern Mindanao, the Philippines. We employ a mixed method approach involving a survey of 211 microfinance client and non-client...

This study empirically investigates the impact of economic, demographic, and political factors on the size of emigration from the Philippines. In 2007, overseas workers from the Philippines sent remittances in excess of US$14 billion annually to their families back home. Although these...