The Brief Pod: Courting Duterte

Preventing Other ‘Marawis’ in the Southern Philippines

After more than 5 months of intense fighting, the Battle for Marawi has concluded as the largest urban combat scenario in modern Philippine history....

Child protection and maltreatment in the Philippines: a systematic review of the literature

To gain a better understanding of the dimensions, characteristics and phenomenon of child maltreatment and its policy responses in the Philippines, this...

Linkage between rural voters and politicians: effects on rice policies in the Philippines and Thailand

This article explains how linkages between politicians and rural voters affected the design of agricultural policies, using rice in two countries as...

The cost of clean water

Water wars in the Philippines.

Conditional cash transfer in the Philippines

This article explores how global social policy can be implemented in the local context by examining the policy process undertaken for the conditional cash...

Law and peace

Can the Philippines build a just peace in Mindanao?