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Collab among sectors key to increasing S&T workforce in PH: experts Share on email A holistic approach to support the country’s current and future science and technology (S&T) workers should be a joint undertaking among various sectors. This was one of the key messages during the Philippine Institute for Development Studies’ (PIDS) public webinar titled “A Labor Market Analysis of S&T Human Resource Needs in the Philippines”. In his presentation, PIDS senior research fellow Jose Ramon G...

  Six years ago, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, senior fellow and director of the Latin American Initiative, researched and published for the Center for Global Development (CGD) an interesting study of emerging markets’ resilience to external shocks. She compared their performance in 2007, before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), and seven years later in 2014 covering 21 countries. Rojas-Suarez used as determinants of resilience such macroeconomic factors as, one, cost and availability of externa...