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Structural Adjustment Program after Structural Adjustment Program, but Why Still No Development in the Philippines?

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  • Joseph Y. Lim

    (Professor of Economics School of Economics University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101 The Philippines)

  • Manuel F. Montes

    (Program Officer The Ford Foundation 320 East 43rd Street New York, NY 11017 USA)

Abstract

Since the debt crisis of the 1980s, Philippine economic performance has been an outlier in East Asia, in spite of reform policies that generally have conformed to worldwide norms of trade liberalization and deregulation. In the 20-year period since 1980, the proportion of GDP attributed to manufacturing has declined from 24 to 22 percent. Dependence on commodity exports has declined, and the Philippines' export structure is now less diversified than it was 20 years ago. Market-oriented economic reforms are incomplete, as they are in many other countries, but the Philippines' poor economic performance is mostly a result of macroeconomic instability and low domestic savings, not inadequate reforms. Reform efforts have contributed to political instability, and macroeconomic instability has stifled investment. A model of macroeconomic shortages in domestic, external, and public savings is presented to illustrate the continuing constraints on Philippine economic growth and development. Copyright (c) 2002 Center for International Development and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Joseph Y. Lim & Manuel F. Montes, 2002. "Structural Adjustment Program after Structural Adjustment Program, but Why Still No Development in the Philippines?," Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, vol. 1(3), pages 90-119.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:asiaec:v:1:y:2002:i:3:p:90-119
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    Cited by:

    1. Subrata Ghatak & José R. Sánchez‐Fung, 2007. "Is Fiscal Policy Sustainable in Developing Economies?," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 11(3), pages 518-530, August.

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