Using sector-level data on bilateral greenfield investment for 198 source and destination countries over 2003-2018 in a structural gravity model, we…

The growth of Chinese investments into India since 2014 has changed the nature of what has been a largely transactional trade relationship. Chinese…

India has long been an education hub for students from its neighbourhood. Besides economic benefits, India’s capacity to attract students from…

This awareness-raising material is intended to inform those involved in the design and implementation of the Asian Development Bank's investment…

A generalization and the widespread use of foreign currency in North Korea is called dollarization. Opinions are mixed over the backgrounds and the…

More than 25 years into the implementation of the Local Government Code of 1991, it is inconclusive whether fiscal decentralization indeed improves…

The study analyzes the efficiency implications of fiscal decentralization using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It uses LGU health expenditure (in…

The Performance Challenge Fund (PCF), established by the DILG in 2010, is a performance-based incentive program that gives financial subsidies to local…

Despite almost three decades of Philippine decentralization, local governments continue experience varied levels of development and face challenges in…

The Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) is a data collection system designed to methodically process and integrate local government data for…

In Roman literature, the word ‘black swan’ was used as metaphor to express impossibility as it was perceived that swans were always white. Later, with…

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has exposed the fragility of labour markets around the world. It might be the world’s biggest emergency in terms of job…