Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small economic players and thus help them to build assets, which means a contribution to poverty alleviation. This paper provides an overview of rural...

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small economic players and thus help them to build assets, thereby contribute to poverty alleviation. This paper provides an overview of rural finance...

The promise and potential of the Philippine economy has remained unrealized notwithstanding the country`s talented labor force, skilled professionals, and relatively abundant resources. What ails the Philippines? This paper argues that the incompetence and downright corruption of Philippine...

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small economic players and thus help them to build assets, thereby contribute to poverty alleviation. This paper provides an overview of rural finance...

The promise and potential of the Philippine economy has remained unrealized notwithstanding the country's talented labor force, skilled professionals, and relatively abundant resources. What ails the Philippines? This paper argues that the incompetence and downright corruption of Philippine...

To face the challenges and exploit the opportunities created by the agriculture trade liberalization and the devolution of governance, it is important that institutional issues confronting any sector be addressed. It is in this light that this paper aims to analyze the institutional issues...

With the passage of the Local Government Code in 1991, LGUs are challenged to efficiently manage its resources given the responsibility of delivery of basic services. With this premise, the “Population and Urbanization: Managing the Urbanization Process Under a Decentralized Governance...

About two-thirds of the Philippine population resides in the rural areas, earning an average family income of only half of their urban counterparts. It is therefore, not surprising that much interest has been expressed in the progress of rural development strategies, the impact they have had on...

The electric-power generation and distribution (EPGD), which is a traditional instrument of economic growth and is tapped to serve regional development, social equity and other objectives, has felt most the effects of liberalization. For it to contribute to economic adjustment, the government...

The increasing demands and expectations placed upon the Philippine bureaucracy by a redemocratizing society are further amplified by the strengthening of global institutional pressures emanating from organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation....