Current planning and policymaking have not been very successful in terms of target-setting and policy prescriptions because of the seemingly implicit treatment of the energy factor in the formulation of models for policy and planning. This paper reports the results of an econometric modeling...

The purpose of this paper is to review and evaluate the existing works on tax revenue forecasting in the Philippines. The review is intended to provide insights on the particular problems involved in the formulation and estimation of a revenue-forecasting model and thus, set the stage for the...

Utilizing the Annual Survey of Establishments from 1978 to 1987, this paper makes an econometric estimation of the production parameters for the Philippine manufacturing and services sectors. The value added functions are then estimated using the translog cost functions and normalized quadratic...

Tax revenue forecasting is an essential input in the budgetary process. The ability to project and forecast future tax collections is an important element in the identification of future budgetary gaps and in the planning of new tax measures that may be needed to meet these needs. In addition,...

This article surveys existing forecasting models in the Philippines and discusses several promising alternatives in the process of developing a methodological modeling. Investigation of CGE models leads to the findings of the absence of population-environment interactions.

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños on August 13-14, 1985. It discusses a simple type of general equilibrium policy models and illustrates its application in the Indian agriculture. Results indicate the importance...

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños on August 13-14, 1985. It reviews the consumer theory and demand system and the econometric issues in utilizing household level data. It also reviews the Philippine estimates and...

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños on August 13-14, 1985. It considers block-recursiveness in a simple household model under different market regimes. Analysis shows conservatism of farm households with respect to...

What has not been explored in the traditional measures of poverty is the extensive set of categorical variables that indicate standard of living and are already available from existing survey data. What precluded researchers from deriving poverty and welfare gauges from these data is the...

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños on August 13-14, 1985. It outlines the features of the computable general equilibrium developed by the author and describes the modifications undertaken to fit the model into...