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Item Restricted Should plastic bags be beanned? a case study of Valenzuela City(2013-10) Ognita, Elisabeth Joan a.; Parlan, Maria Jenina; Pernia, Ernesto M.Having been known as the "Plastic City", Valenzuela City stands firm on refusing to adopt the "Plastic Ban" becoming one of the six cities (out of 17 cities in Metro Manila) that stands out defying the ban on the use of plastics. The purpose of our study is to examine the economic and environmental effects of plastic bag bans and analyze the potential advantages and disadvantages of this policy. We find that banning plastic bags appears to reduce employment and sales. The plastic bag ban also seems to encourage the production and use of alternatives to plastic, such as paper bags and reusable bags that are alleged to be more environmentally harmful than plastics. Since banning plastic bags appears to harm both the economy and the environment, proper regulation on the use of plastics should be implemented instead of the total ban on plastics.Item Restricted Economic effects of the loans of the Rural Bank of Calumpit, Inc.(1969-01) Baltazar, Celia T.; Sicat, Gerardo P.Item Restricted The telecommunications industry and its effects on economic growth(1988-09) Abello, Jose Antonio R.; Alberto Ma. PamelaItem Restricted The economic effects of oil price changes on Philippine manufacturing(2009-10) Rusiana, Hofner D.; Ticzon, Maria Cristia A.This paper aims to determine the relationship be1;ween changes in domestic oil prices and Philippine manufacturing performance. Two sets of V AR models are employed using linear and non-linear oil price specifications using several economic variables. From the linear oil price specification VAR model, the impulse response function reveals that oil price movement causes positive effects in the output of the manufacturing sector. The variance decomposition shows that oil prices are quite important as a cause of the variance in the production of the manufacturing sector. From the asymmetric specification, it has been found that positive oil price changes determine a consistent contraction in manufacturing output. On the other hand, negative oil price changes show that manufacturing output does not increase so much despite a decrease in oil prices. Moreover, variance decomposition shows that contribution of oil price decreases on production variation is greater than oil price increases.