This Policy Note summarizes key trends and challenges in the Philippine health sector into four stylized facts: one on the country’s population health…

The international community recognizes the Philippines as a model for migrant protection. The country’s migrant policies ensure that Overseas Filipino…

The world is being transformed by expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT). The security challenges that go with this expansion require confronting…

As much as 89% of Nepal’s population relies on on-site sanitation. This means that 2,925 cubic meters of fecal sludge per day are ineffectively…

AdaBoost tweaks the sample weight for each training set used in the iterative process, however, it is demonstrated that it provides more correlated…

This paper sets up a two agent small open economy with monopolistically competitive firms and catching up with the Joneses to investigate the labor and…

For the first time in history, the 21st ASEAN-Republic of Korea (ROK, hereinafter, Korea) Summit was held via videoconference on November 20, 2020 as a…

Health care providers such as hospitals and primary health care facilities form an integral part of any health system. Providers must have both…

With the country still managing the COVID-19 pandemic, the election of national and local officials next year, and an increase in resources available…

In hospitals, nutrition care is a set of actions that allows for the identification of patient nutritional needs and the provision of care to address…

This paper reviews the Philippines’ participation in services trade agreements to date at the multilateral (WTO GATS), regional (ASEAN and dialogue…

Widespread chronic malnutrition in the Philippines is a human development disaster, which needs critical and urgent attention. Its consequences are…