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THE COUNTRY`S competition policies must be reformed for fairness, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said in a press release on S..
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The pork stays and it’s a whopping P27 billion in the Aquino administration’s proposed P2.268-trillion national budget for next year. Unfazed by t..
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Listening to our President’s one hour and some State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, I realized that there were a lot of things that I was..
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The national government’s spending for agriculture is skewed heavily toward the rice sector, according to a study released by the Philippine Institu..
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Sergio Ortiz-Luis, chairman of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) said President Aquino missed the chance to talk about mining to ..
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President Aquino announced that the government is expanding the coverage of the Conditional Cash-Transfer (CCT) Program to include children aged up to..
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The government may well have to subsidize health insurance for kids below five years old since they are the most vulnerable among those not currently ..
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The Pantawid program is able to hit its target consistently because it is the only government program that operates with a National Household Targetin..
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Banks and the big companies can increase their profits without hiring more people or increasing the number of people in factories. If you really want ..
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More thoughtful people outside government are not as enthusiastic. In a study released this week, Dr. Celia Reyes of the Philippine Institute for Deve..
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Launched in 2007, the conditional cash transfer program gives conditional cash grants to indigent families who have kids ages 14 years old and below. ..
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A paper titled “Strengthening Social Protection in the Philippines,” authored by PIDS Senior Fellow Celia Reyes, said the wages received by high-s..
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A FORMER deputy director-general of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has taken over the leadership of a government think tank. A..
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The national government aims to have the Industry Development Council (IDC) up and running by the first quarter of 2014, according to the Department o..
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"This is important, not only to enable our industries to take advantage of the opportunities and face the challenges that would arise from the ASEAN (..
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