The Philippine economy : alternatives for the 21st century
/ edited by Dante B. Canlas and Shigeaki Fujisaki
- xvi, 306 pages : illustrations
Includes index.
The texture of competition in the first decade of the new century: Introduction -- Millennial vignettes -- Icons of the 20th century globalism -- Von thunen competition -- Mainland china as great dragon -- Embryonic stem capital -- Summary -- The boom-bust cycle (will it ever end?) : The real-structural hypothesis (RSH) -- The political business cycle -- An eclectic hypothesis -- Forward to the past -- East Asian experience reconsidered: complementarities, increasing returns and bullish entrepreneurs : Complementarities and the big push -- Increasing returns, market size and income distribution -- Bullish entrepreneurs and the east asian experience -- Lessons about macroeconomic fundamentals from the east asian crisis : Three views on the east asian crisis -- Myths that contributed to misconceptions on the macroeconomic aspects of the east asian crisis -- The Macroeconomic fundamentals of the east asian five before the crisis -- The importance of "animal spirit": a review of macroeconomic fundamentals of east asian countries in the eighties and nineties -- Examples of strong macro fundamentals -- Exploring the movements of real exchange rates, current account deficits and growth -- Summary and conclusion -- Regulatory challenges to reform in banking and corporate rehabilitation : Introduction -- The banking sector -- A profile of financially distressed firms -- Empirical verification of the relationship between the corporate and financial sectors -- Some regulatory and supervisory challenges -- The WTO negotiations and trade liberalization issues for the Philippines : Introduction -- UR built-in agenda -- Whats's at stake for the Philippines? -- The collapse of the third WTO ministerial meeting -- Issues and prospects for the Philippines -- A concluding note -- Annex a -- Industrial development in the Philippines: issues and prospects for the 21st century : Introduction -- Is the manufacturing sector sporting a "new" look? -- Manufacturing in the 21st century: the prospects -- The issues: what remains to be done -- Rural development in the 21st century: monitoring and assessing performance in rural poverty reduction : Introduction -- Rural poverty trends -- The problem with existing rural poverty indicators -- Toward a poverty monitoring and indicator system for the rural sector -- Summary and concluding remarks -- Annex a -- Human resource development in the Philippines: goals, policies and governance : Introduction -- Overview -- A framework -- HRD policies -- Institutions and governance -- Concluding remarks -- Is the Philippines prepared for globalization?: an assessment of its science and technology capabilities : How to acquire competitive capabilities -- The state of Philippine science and non-science education -- S&T capability in the top three universities -- Concluding remarks -- Designing S&T policy for the new millennium : S&T policy making and challenges of knowledge-based economy -- Measures of Philippine technological performance -- S&T policy making in the Philippines: an assessment -- S&T framework for the new millennium.
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Twenty - first century --Forecast Philippines--1986--Economic conditions