In this paper, the authors examine how domestic and foreign supply shocks affect rice trade and consumption. Their study reveals that export restrictions, price stabilization programs, and other such policies can offset negative domestic shocks.

How to build bridges to export markets so that people in the economic periphery have a better opportunity to take poverty off their own maps.

This paper examines opportunities and challenges to expand the scale and scope of information technology-business process outsourcing and tourism, and the prospects for Filipino technical, managerial, and entrepreneurial talent, so that they will remain in the Philippines and work here rather than go abroad.

This paper examines the role of international trade in employment growth in micro- and small enterprises using a representative sample of manufacturing firms in six Southeast Asian countries.