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The ASEAN Economic Community 2015 and Regional Trade: Some Prospects for ASEAN Agriculture
The establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community 2015 (AEC) is seen as a bold effort to promote regional cooperation among the ASEAN member states. It covers not only the usual trade policy prescriptions of lowering tariffs and other trade barriers, but other policy measures to create a single...Volume 12 Issue No. 2 (December 2015) -
NARES Capacity in Relation to International Treaties and Conventions on Intellectual Property Rights, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Plant Genetic Resources Management
Significant developments in the scientific front and international policy arena have affected the use and exchange of genetic resources, and the management of intellectual property. These developments are now reshaping public agricultural research and development (R&D) in developing countries,...Volume 3 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2006) -
Managing Microfinance Risks: Some Observations and Suggestions
Risk is an integral part of financial intermediation. Hence, risk management must be at the heart of finance. However, it is disturbing to note that systematic risk management is still not as widespread as it should be in the microfinance industry. Except for a few flagship microfinance institutions...Volume 4 Issue No. 2 (December 2007) -
Evaluating Policies for the Philippine Rice Market: Applications of the REMEDIOS Model
For agriculture, market conditions change rapidly, whereas agricultural policies tend to follow with a lag. Debates are prolonged in the absence of sufficient information about the potential impact of policies across different groups and on society in general. When policies do adjust, changing...Volume 23 Issue No. 1 (June 2026) -
Digital Technology Adoption and Potential in Southeast Asian Agriculture
While the rural agriculture sector has traditionally been seen as backward relative to the urban industrial and services sectors, it is a potential “low-hanging fruit” ripe for a much-needed digital transformation for agricultural development. ASEAN has seen a U-turn in...Volume 20 Issue No. 2 (December 2023) -
Agricultural Transformation for Small (Island and Developing) States
Agriculture in the development literature has been postulated as providing impetus for urban industrialization through its role in capital accumulation. While large states with concomitant large export potential of agricultural surpluses may subscribe to this paradigm and may also allow growth of a...Volume 20 Issue No. 1 (June 2023) -
Myanmar in Economic Transition: Constraints and Related Issues Affecting the Agriculture Sector
The paper proceeds from the widely held assessment that Myanmar's economy is handicapped by structural imbalance, instability, inefficient and imperfect markets, and distorted prices. The paper delineates how this general state of affairs is clearly evident in the agricultural sector. It then...Volume 1 Issue No. 2 (December 2004) -
Effects of Farm Income Diversification and Labor Out-Migration on Rice Household Productivity in Indonesia
This study analyzed the effects of farm income diversification and labor out-migration on rice household productivity in Indonesia, using cross-sectional data from the 2013 Census of Agriculture. Diversification was assessed through crop choices, household heads’ off-farm employment, and regional...Volume 21 Issue No. 2 (December 2024) -
Market Integration and Price Causality in the Myanmar Rice Market
In Myanmar, rice is an invaluable commodity both as a staple food and a source of high foreign exchange earnings through export. The country's agricultural economy has been transitioning from a planned economy to a market system since the late 1980s; however, the government has yet to engage in...Volume 7 Issue No. 2 (December 2010)
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