This report summarizes the results of work conducted as a short-term pension tax policy advisor to the Philippine government. This technical assistance is being provided through the USAID-funded AGILE project. The report contains general comments on the pension reform agenda described in a draft white paper and preliminary quantitative results on the individual income tax revenue effects of the...

Trait perspectives are dominant in the study of personality cross-culturally. We review the questions addressed by researchers who study personality traits across cultures, including, among others, whether traits are used in all cultures to understand persons and their behavior, the universality versus culture-specificity of traits, the validity of imported and indigenous measures of personalit...