New Institutional Economics and the Philippines Essay -- Economy Econo

unfermented Institutional Economics and the PhilippinesNew Institutional Economics offers a port to examine the dynamics of exploitation -particularly with an eye toward explaining the problems of slow growth in developing economies, where market systems may be presumed to be weak or incomplete. I will review these concepts within the framework of the Philippines, a respectable country with a rich and diverse set of resources, which however is not achieving significant growth.At present the Philippines is in a depressed albeit not grim state. It remains firmly enmeshed in the World Banks pooh-pooh middle income category of nations with a GDP per capita of $1,050 (U.S. 1998 Atlas method). 38% of the Philippines commonwealth is below the national poverty line. And it has one of the higher state growth rates in the region at 2.7% which will double the population within 30 years if continued1. Growth rate of GDP per capita in the period of time 1988 to 1998 was only 1.3%. Its tot al debt in 1998 was 73% of Gross domesticated Product and this is a growing percentage through the last decade. The general story on exports is not clear, but traditional export products and categories (sugar, coco oil /related products, rice, and timber) are not growing. Perhaps the most notability element is the degree to which it has not shared in regional growth. As noted by Yoshihara Kunio, relative per capita GNP between the Philippines and Thailand has reversed in the last 40 to 50 years (Yoshihara, 2). One reason for this is the hugely damaging twenty year government of Ferdinand Marcos which among many other things leftover the county in an extremely indebted state at the onset of a world wide recession in the late 1980s. A period of relative political instability follo... ...ent of the New Institutional Economics. Harriss 27-48.-Toye, John the NIE and its Implications for ontogeny Theory. Harriss 49-70.-Harriss-White, Barbara. Maps & Lndscps Grain Markets in S. Asi a. Harriss 87-108.Kelly, Philip F. Landscapes of Globalization Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines. London/New York Routledge, 2000.U.S. State Department. Background notes Philippines, August 1999. Washington DC . http//www.state.gov/www/background_notes/Philippines-1999 Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade coif U. S. Dept. of State March 2000 (Philippines PDF ,obtained from internal link previous cite).World Bank. Philippines at a glance (PDF). Washington D.C . http//worldbank.org/.Yoshihara, Kunio. the Nation and Economic Growth the Philippines and Thailand. Kuala Lumpur/Oxford Oxford Univ Press, 1994.