Dr. GILBERTO M. LLANTO, Ph.D., is presently the President of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), the economic think-tank of the Philippine Government. His areas of expertise are Money and Banking, Public Finance, and International Trade. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Philippines. Prior to his […]

 Dr. Ciel Habito is a Professor of Economics in the Ateneo de Manila University, where he is also Director of the Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development (ACERD). He has served as Board Director in various private corporations and foundations, including the Manila Water Company, Metrobank, Metrobank Card Corporation, Steel Corporation of the Philippines, […]

Dr. Pernia’s research interests are in Development Economics, Demographic Economics, and Human Resource Economics and he has extensive publications on these topics. In 2003, he published Poverty, Growth, and Institutions in Developing Asia, (with A. B. Deolalikar, eds.), (London and Tokyo: Palgrave Macmillan.). He is presently Professorial Lecturer of the University of the Philippines School […]

 Dr. Leonardo A. Gonzales, an ASI Alumnus (MS Economics 1971) is the lead author of the book Buffalo Meat Imports and the Philippine Livestock Industry: An Impact Assessment, which was bestowed ‘OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD”  by the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NAST) during its Annual Scientific Meeting on July 10-11, 2013 at the Manila […]