• Roberto F. de Ocampo Center for Public Finance and Regional Economic Cooperation
• Economics Education
• Tourism
• Transportation and Logistics
• Asian Center for Democracy
• Health and Family
• Center for Strategic Studies on Security and Trade
• Social Enterprise

• Board of Trustees 
• Management Committee 

Mission

The CRC Foundation is an institution dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge in the service of man and society. In pursuing its mission, it focuses on questions that bear on the dignity of the person, the unity of the family, civic responsibility, human solidarity, with the purpose of making current issues understood by decision-makers in business, government and civil society, thus translating progressive ideas into action. It also aims to help form a responsible citizenry that can judge policies on the basis of their wisdom rather than populist appeal.

Objectives

• To undertake continuing research on policy issues and concerns that are vested with public interest and common good;

• To organize, promote, commission and/or conduct studies, preferably of an interdisciplinary nature, that focus on issues that bear on the dignity of the individual person, the unity of the family, civic responsibility, human solidarity, the promotion of subsidiary and the spirit of enterprise.

• To develop, organize and conduct seminars, conferences and public forums, undertake communication activities both local and international, in order to disseminate or transmit its findings and spread a deeper sense of social responsibility and good citizenship in a free and progressive society; and

• To bring to public focus and awareness the results of its research and other studies through the publication and circulation of books, journals, periodicals, reviews and other informative literature.

History

The Center for Research and Communication was founded in 1967 as a private, non-stock, non-profit research institution serving the needs of the business community for economic information. It pioneered in economic forecasting and industry analysis, regularly communicating economic forecasts and industry studies through written reports, briefings, conferences and seminars. Soon after, CRC started to offer graduate degree courses to complement the training of its research staff.

CRC rapidly expanded its activities in the 1970s and the 1980s enlarging its research capacity in macroeconomic forecasting and industry monitoring and venturing into fields such as corporate planning services, international studies, country risk analysis and education. At the same time, it also expanded its educational programs through the full establishment of graduate programs in industrial economics, strategic and applied business economics, and values education.

In the 1990s, CRC underwent a major transformation. By establishing an undergraduate college in 1989, eventually leading to the founding of several graduate schools, it refocused faculty members' tasks to teaching activities appropriate to a full-fledged institution of higher learning. In 1995, CRC became the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) with an undergraduate college and the graduate schools.

Following this development, the Center for Research and Communication Foundation was launched in 1996 creating a new institution that would fully concentrate on research. The new CRC, with the old CRC's Institute for International and Strategic Studies forming its core and drawing on the intellectual resources of the UA&P, stresses international networking and the multidisciplinary handling of broad issues that are relevant to business, government and civil society.

CRC today is in the process of further rationalizing its operations by creating new divisions to achieve a greater focus in sectors that have in recent years become integral to the economic development of the country. By establishing divisions that will concentrate on knowledge work for the tourism and information technology industries among others, CRC hopes to help shape policy in these areas that will help to realize their full potential in the near future.

Throughout the years, CRC has kept the tradition of balancing scholarly research and active engagement in policy debates and reforms. Taking advantage of the opportunities arising from new technologies and the advent of a borderless world to expand the scope of its mission, today's CRC continues to follow this tradition of harnessing knowledge for progress.