Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127799 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
PIDS Discussion Paper Series No. 2002-26
Publisher: 
Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Makati City
Abstract: 
Global markets for goods and services have opened for countries that have made substantial investments in technological innovations in transportation, communications and production techniques, inventory management and the rapid rate of innovation in financial instruments, among others. This study presents in broad strokes a chronicle of infrastructure development in the Philippines in the last twenty-five years. It covers the infrastructure experience across the Marcos regime to the Estrada administration. The main objective of this paper is to flag those gaps and issues for future research, policy analysis and policy formulation. It calls particular attention to several constraints, e.g., large budget deficits faced by the national government, inefficient government implementation of infrastructure projects, unclear policy and regulatory framework for private participation in infrastructure. Among others, it brings attention to the design of the regulatory framework for infrastructure that would be necessary to motivate private sector participation. It is important to consider an appropriate regulatory framework to ensure fair competition, adequate returns to the private investor and consumer welfare. It is equally important to develop the appropriate incentives that should inform that regulatory framework.
Subjects: 
private sector participation
infrastructure development
infrastructure policy
regulatory framework
incentive structure
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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