2011 budget — a fresh start
In his veto message, President Benigno Aquino III triumphantly said: “For the first time in over a decade, we have a budget passed on time.” It’s an achievement worth celebrating but only because the previous Arroyo administration had wantonly disregarded all existing budget rules. During the past nine fiscal years, not a single national budget...
Contagious migration: evidence from the Philippines
Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover effects-‐fellow migrants share information with other neighboring migrants, thereby lowering the costs of migration.
