Complexities at the intersection of tobacco control and trade liberalisation: evidence from Southeast Asia

Academic Papers, Sin Tax Reforms

Abstract For more than two decades, public health scholars and proponents have demonstrated concern about the negative effects of trade liberalisation on tobacco control policies. However, there is little theoretically-guided, empirical research across time and space that evaluates this relationship. Accordingly, we use one major region that has experienced rapid and significant recent liberalisation, Southeast […]

Influencing physician prescribing behavior: direct-to- consumer advertising and the demand for me-too drugs

Academic Papers, Influencing physician prescribing behavior

ABSTRACT This study examines the variables that may influence physicians’ choices of medication for their patients and the effect of the entry of me-too drugs on the market of breakthrough and generic drugs. Using the 2006 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), drugs belonging to the drug classes statin, cardioselective beta blockers, proton pump inhibitors […]

The Failure of the Real Property Tax in Local Governments

Academic Papers, Tax Justice

This paper, authored by Maita Gomez of Action for Economic Reforms, seeks to address the problems and obstacles faced by LGUs in the generation of revenues from their most stable and most substantial source, real property. The focus of the study is on the poor performance in Real Property Taxes (RPT) collection, on acts and […]

Philippine Fiscal Incentives: A Note on Design, Administration, and Context

Academic Papers, Tax Justice

The main idea of this paper on Philippine Fiscal Incentives written by Cristina Morales-Alikpala, is that while fiscal incentives, in their current design, administration, and context, may have proven to be of little value when it comes to encouraging investments, the notion of providing effective subsidies to worthy investors should not altogether be abandoned.

Motives and Giving Norms Behind Remittances: The Case of Filipino Overseas Workers and their Recipient Households

Academic Papers

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior.

But as non-anonymous transfers, remittances are apt to be influenced by giving norms as well. We formulate an empirical specification that takes account of remittance motives involving worker-household pairs.

Undermining abundance

Academic Papers

Technology and law are increasingly used to undermine processes of abundance intrinsic to nature, agriculture and the information sector. A number of examples are reviewed here. Such counterproductive use of technology and law is traced to corporate profitseeking. The relationships between the phenomenon of abundance and the related concepts of scarcity and commons are explored. Finally, approaches are proposed that harness abundance for the human good.

Action for Economic Reforms (AER)

For sustainable growth, equity and people-centered governance.

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