Works on Economics, Development Issues, and Resource Valuation by Arturo Boquiren

SELECT WORKS OF ARTURO C. BOQUIREN

(Assistant Professor in Economics, University of the Philippines-Baguio)

A Dossier on Philex Mining Corporation: Focus on Benguet Operations (May 2009)

“Mining is the wrong engine for growth” in Robert Goodland and Clive Wicks, Philippines: Mining or Food. December 2008. Published by Working Group on Mining in the Philippines: London, United Kingdom (with support from the Columban Faith and Justice, Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility, Paul Feyerabend Foundation, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Irish Center for Human Rights, Miseorero, Piplinks, and PAFID.

“Validating policy prescriptions from benefit-cost assessments of mining through comparative analysis and test of hypotheses” in The Philippine Review of Economics (A peer-reviewed journal in economics). June 2008. Published by the University of the Philippines School of Economics and the Philippine Economic Society.

Towards A Basic Methodology in the Benefit-Cost Assessment of Mining (January 2007)

Globalization and the Millennium Development Goals (talk during the Experts' Meeting of the Civil Society Counterpart Council for Sustainable Development. June 2006. The automatic powerpoint show may not appear in Linux and a few other internet browsers.

Valuation of Benguet Biodiversity and Benefit Cost Analysis of Mining. May 2006. 106 pages Copyright 2006 @Haribon Foundation (with funding from The Royal Netherlands Embassy). The views expressed by the author, Arturo C. Boquiren, do not necessarily reflect the views of Haribon Foundation nor the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Related work: Towards A Framework for Valuation of Environmental Resources: Monetization and Intangibles).

Designing Market-Based Rewards for Community Environmental Services for Power Companies . 14 July 2005 (Edited 15 September 2005). Paper presented before the Technical Advisory Group (author is a member of the Technical Advisory Group), CHARM-RUPES Department of Agriculture, 14 July 2005. An important complement to this work is a forthcoming article by the author on the limitations of market-based approaches to payments for environmental services that will be presented in a conference of the Philippine Social Science Association (PSSA).

Towards A Framework for Valuation of Environmental Resources: Monetization and Intangibles. January 2006. Training Material produced for for Economics 198 (Special Topics in Economics: Environmental Economics).

An Assessment of ENRAP's Approach to Valuation of the Forest. 7 Febrary 2006. Training Material produced for for Economics 198 (Special Topics in Economics: Environmental Economics).

Rent Approaches in Valuation of Environmental Resources . 7 February 2005. Training Material produced for for Economics 198 (Special Topics in Economics: Environmental Economics).

Towards an Improved "Manual on Environmental Economics and Assessment of the Impact of Mining" . March 2005. Talk before a consultation sponsored by Haribon Foundation in Quezon City, Philippines.

Communal Forest of the Cordillera: The Case of Alno, La Trinidad, Benguet (short version found in page 415-426 of Van der Plog, J. and A. B. Masipiquena (editors). 2005. The future of the Sierra Madre: responding to social and ecological change (proceedings of an international conference on the Sierra Madre). CVPED. Golden Press: Tuguegarao City, Philippines.

Resources Owned in Common: A View from Economics. Edited 15 December 2004. Presented before a conference of nongovernment organizations and Governance and Public Policy Public Presentation on separate dates. The research track will be pursued for at least several years.

Origin and Structure of Transmission of the Asian Currency Crisis. November 2003. Presented before the Baguio City community on said date.

Internet Powerpoint presentation of "Origin and Structure of Transmission of the Asian Currency Crisis . 2004. The work is an online powerpoint presentation version of the author's talk of November 2003.

Education in the Cordillera. September 2003. A study commissioned by the National Economic Development Authority-Cordillera Administrative Region and several schools of Baguio City.

Select Lectures in Development Economics (Various Years). Training Materials for Economics 191 or Development Economics.

Select Lectures in Statistics. 2003. Training Materials for Social Science 101 or Fundamentals of Social Science Statistcs.

Select Lectures in Research Methods. 2003. Training Materials for Social Science 199 or Research Methods in the Social Sc iences.

Manual for Resource Accounting at the Village Level. June 2003. Produced for the Population Commission-Cordillera Administrative Region.

Manual on Planning Community Development with focus on population and energy . May 2003. Produced for Sibol at Agham ng Teknolohiya (SIBAT) and the Population Commission(POPCOM)-Cordillera Administrative Region.

Strategizing NGO Response to Poverty in the Cordillera. Talk before a conference of nongovernment organizations in the Cordillera organized by the Peace and Equity Foundation (PEF).

Some Recommendations for Modernizing the Vegetable Sector in the Cordillera. 2003. Excerpts from a material of more than 100 pages written by Arturo Boquiren for a study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture-Cordillera Administrative Region.

Conclusions and Recommendations from "Policy Study on the Role of Trading Post in the Marketing of Vegetables in the Cordillera. 2003. Excerpts from a material of more than 100 pages written by Arturo Boquiren for a study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture-Cordillera Administrative Region.

Modernizing Cordillera Agriculture and Fisheries in the 21st Century (1999). Top prize winner of a program/development writing contest sponsored of the Department of Agriculture-Cordillera Administrative Region.

Process of Policy Formulation in Resource Management (CSC Working Paper 26). 1995. Co-authored with Michael Cabalfin. University of the Philippines-Baguio Cordillera Studies Center.

Manual on the Community Resource Balance Sheet: A Tool for Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluating Sustainable Development (1993): more than 100 pages, electronic file is corrupted and a JPEG production is underway. Co-authored with Hiroyuki Maruyama of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Click to www.geocities.com/artboquirenupnorth/crbs.pdf for an overview as published in the book "Participatory and Community-Based Approaches in Upland Development: A Decade of Experience and Look at the Future" edited by Marco, Jesusa and Enrique Nunez Jr. 1996. Participatory and Community-Based approaches on Upland Development: A Decade of Experience and A Look at the Future. Philippine Upland Resource Center: _____, Philippines. Another work on the CRBS is that material I co-authored with Rowena Reyes-Boquiren (click here to access the material). 1997. The Community Resource Balance Sheet (Working Paper 28). University of the Philippines-Baguio Cordillera Studies Center, Philippines.

Advancing Regional Autonomy in the Cordillera: A Sourcebook (material collected/prepared and edited by A. Boquiren, 1994). University of the Philippines and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung-Philippine Office: Philippines. This is 187 pages and a JPEG reproduction is underway given that the electronic file is corrupted.

Notes: A few years ago, I have made it my goal to contribute to the basic or fundamental theories of international economics (specialization: southern perspective), public economics, environmental economics (focus on payments for environmental services), and efficiency analysis and management capabilities of the commons or resources owned in common. My other works, however, reflect my attempt to contribute to practical development and these are in community development, project development, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation, impact studies, agriculture, community resource balance sheet and community development and planning tools, forest development, biodiversity conservation advocacy, advancement of indigenous people's rights to land and biodiversity resources, and other issues and concern of our time and age. In the course of teaching statistics and research methods, I have also developed some materials in statistics and research methods. During the early years of the 90s, when I was still teaching sociology (my undergraduate course was Sociology and Economics), I was also the pioneer or was one of the pioneers in feminism, women-empowerment, and gender-fair approaches to development in the University of the Philippines College of Baguio (UPCB), the old name of the University of the Philippines-Baguio. Today, however, while I no longer focus on feminism, women-empowerment is part and parcel of the development work that I do. It must be emphasized that even if I stick to progressive theory-building, I will have to continue responding to the practical needs of development.