53rd Annual Meeting

KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SESSION

Keynote Address by Dr. Ganeshan Wignaraja

Plenary Presentation by NEDA Director-General Arsenio Balisacan

Downside Risks and Missed/New Opportunities by Mr. Romeo Bernardo

PANEL SESSIONS

A1. Migration for Sustained and Inclusive Growth: Reforms at the National and Local Levels

The Effects of Parents’ Migration on the Rights of Children Left Behind

Overseas Remittances, Hometown Investment and Financial Inclusion: A Remittance Investment Climate Study in a Rural Hometown

A2. Power Sector in the Philippines: Theory, Policy and Practice (EPDP Panel 1)

Principles of Electricity Policy with Philippines Applications

Value Added Tax and the Cost Doing Business in the Philippines: Their Relative Contribution to Electricity Prices and Economic Performance

Assessment of the Philippine Power Sector Policy Landscape

A3. Health System and Social Protection

Estimating Households’ Use and Non-Use Values from the Cagayan de Oro River Basin Using Contingent Valuation Method

Do Filipino Couples Bargain over Family Planning? Testing the Unitary vs. Collective Household Model

A4. Challenges in Regional Development Planning (NEDA Panel 1)

Mainstreaming International Migration Issues in Local Development Planning

Reforms for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth: The Case of Davao Region

A5. Labor Markets and Human Capital

Demographic Sweet Spot and Dividend in the Philippines: The Window of Opportunity is Closing Fast

Do Remittances Enhance Participation in School and in the Labor Force?

Making Microcredit Work for Women Entrepreneurs in the Philippines

A6. Financial Markets

Women on Top: Diversity in Gender and Education Profiles of Top Management and Board of Directors of Philippine Publicly Traded Firms

The Effect of Language on Saving Behavior

Does the Expectations Hypothesis Apply to the Term Structure of PH Government Bond Yields?