Philippines

Mandate
1. To foster and support the development forces at work in the nation’s economy through selective human resources development programs, research, data collection, and information services, so that optimization of wealth may be achieved in a manner congruent with the maximization of public security and welfare;
2. To promote, carry out, and conduct scientific, interdisciplinary, policy-oriented research, education, training, consultancy, and publication in the broad fields of economics, public administration, and political and social sciences, generally involving the study, determination, interpretation, and publication of economic, political, and social facts and principles bearing upon development problems of local, national, or international significance; and
3. To discharge a regional role in initiating and catalyzing exchanges of ideas and expertise on development activities in the region of Asia and the Pacific.

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