For Universal Healthcare, the Philippines Tries “Sin Taxes”
...17th Congress. The new law raised the cigarette tax per pack to PHP 45.00 (USD 0.88) in 2020, with an annual increase of PHP 5.00 until it reaches PHP 60.00...
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One Year After Typhoon Haiyan, Hard-Hit Eastern Visayas Still Fragile
...losses to the economic sector at Php 51.5 billion and the recovery and reconstruction needs at Php 22.8 billion. In agriculture, the damage and losses was estimated at Php 34.5...
The Asia Foundation launches Myanmar Business Environment Index 2020
Second edition of MBEI tool shows progress in governance for private sector development Today, The Asia Foundation released the Myanmar Business Environment Index 2020 (MBEI). The MBEI 2020, funded by...
DC Launch of the 2019 Myanmar Business Environment Index
...Myanmar has recognized the importance of private sector development, yet many enterprises across the country continue to face a challenging business environment. The Myanmar Business Environment Index 2019 report, funded...
How’s Business? We Have a Benchmark for That
...The MBEI has some important differences and advantages compared to other international indices. The World Bank’s Doing Business study, for example, indexes Myanmar against other countries, while the MBEI indexes...
Fighting the Good Fight: The Case of the Philippine Rice Sector
...PHP 34.00–36.00 per kilogram (70–74¢), compared to PHP 40 per kilogram (82¢) before the RTL. The poor benefit disproportionately from the lower and more stable prices. (Photo: Henry Burgos...
The Dark Horse of India’s Renewables Revolution: The “Water Battery”
...Andhra Pradesh. The installation houses six 150 MW reversible turbines for pumped-storage operation. Photo: Kashyap joshi / own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16476707. Finally, with its enormous economy and burgeoning...
The Irrawaddy interviews Jon Keesecker on inaugural Myanmar Business Environment Index
The Irrawaddy features key findings of The Asia Foundation’s 2019 Myanmar Business Environment Index. The Irrawaddy spoke with Jon Keesecker, Myanmar Business Environment Index project manager, about the report’s key...
The Myanmar Business Environment Index 2019
Measuring Economic Governance for Private Sector Development The Economic Governance Index (EGI) is a tool that has become widely accepted by governments to understand economic growth, attract investors, and engage...
The Asia Foundation Releases Myanmar Business Environment Index 2019
New tool measures economic governance for private sector development Today, The Asia Foundation released the Myanmar Business Environment Index 2019 (MBEI) as a diagnostic tool to better understand the local...
The Vietnam City Resilience Index
...foster greater awareness and action on resilience building in Vietnam. We also believe that lessons from developing the Vietnam City Resilience Index will be valuable as a guide to other...
Myanmar Business Environment Index: Covid-19 Impact on Businesses
...Environment Index (MBEI) project, The Asia Foundation conducted two surveys of 750 businesses to see what kind of impact Covid-19 is having on them. The first one was conducted in...
Myanmar Business Environment Index 2020: Measuring Economic Governance for Private Sector Development
The Asia Foundation initiated the first ever Myanmar Business Environment Index (MBEI) in 2018, surveying 4,874 Myanmar businesses in the service and manufacturing industries across the country and gathering a...
Braving the Waves: Gray-Market Trade and Maritime Security in the Sulu Sea
...For those with the capital—at least 10 million Philippine pesos (PHP) in cash (approximately USD 200,000) for each journey to Sabah—cross-border trade can be a lucrative business, with a round...
In Vietnam: Assessing City Resilience
...cities could use to monitor their progress; and second, by ranking cities within a national comparative index, it would create incentives for them to improve their resilience. In June of...
Guidelines for an Index on Gender Friendly Cities
To address the issue of lack of safety in public spaces and fear that women and girls face in them—a tool to assess and measure the quality of built environment...
Doing Business in Asia: Why Competitiveness Depends on Regulatory Reforms
...World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index. The drop is explained in part by the nature of the Doing Business publication, as well as by recent changes in the calculation of...
Where Are India’s Working Women?
...the fact that female literacy and education enrollment rates have been rising, India ranks 127th on the gender inequality index and 108th on the global gender gap index. Photo/Conor Ashleigh...