This section presents past and current projects of Action for Economic Reforms. It features some of the major policy debates that revolve around macroeconomic management in the context of an open, liberalized economy. AER intervenes in macro issues particularly those that impact heavily on equity and the quality of growth. Among the critical issues taken up are the exchange rate policy, trade issues, public investment strategy, the tax system, monetary and pricing policy and the right to public information.
Included in this section are the following projects:
- Yellow Paper II - a conference on the Post Estrada Reform Agenda generating a collection of treatises that address fundamental issues such as poverty, fiscal problem, agriculture, and governance in pursuit of long-term goals of growth, equity and development.
- Capital Flows - studies and conferences towards advocacy for appropriate capital regulation at the national and international levels.
- Information Disclosure - campaign for government transparency involving creation of greater public awareness of the right to information and enacting a law on access to official information.
- Policy Study Series on Poverty - a selection of studies on poverty done in cooperation with the National Anti-Poverty Commission and the Department of Agrarian Reform which aims to contribute to the development of a responsive national policy environment that effectively addresses poverty and related development issues.
- Quality of Life Index - advocacy for an alternative measure of poverty and human capability, developed and generated triennially by AER.
- Education Watch - advocacy to address financing and equity issues in the education sector as well as continuous monitoring of some of the most critical aspects of Philippine education.
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