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THE Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the World Bank are jointly sponsoring a roundtable discussion on "Infrastructure as Buildi..

Policymakers should realize that free trade agreements (FTAs) are neither necessary nor sufficient for economic growth, Dr. Josef Yap, president of th..

Aniceto Orbeta, senior research fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, noted a drastic decline in the proportion of college gradu..

TO enable the Philippines to assert and protect its rights and interests in all bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade negotiations, Sen. Manuel ..

Joint studies by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and t..

Money plays a pivotal role in the country`s economy. Whether there`s more or less money in circulation, or money is exchanging hands faster than us..

The lack of strong competition in the Philippines is discouraging the growth of new businesses and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country...

Less political uncertainties and relatively stable global oil prices will likely drive the economy to grow at a faster pace this year, government thin..

A group of progressive lawmakers have called for the suspension of the government subsidy for the hybrid rice seeds program of the Department of Agric..

THE government has placed the development of small and medium enterprises among the top projects it will finance in the first six months of the year. ..

THEY say most successes are built on multitudes of failures. This is why Malacanang is pushing through with its multimillion-peso hybrid rice program ..

After the 780-million-peso fertilizer fund mess, the Senate is now set to probe government`s Hybrid Rice Commercialization (HRC) Program. The Senate o..

For the time being, the ever-looming fiscal crisis in the Philippines appears to have been alleviated by the sacrifices, hard work and resulting reco..

"The ASEAN picture is mixed in terms of international competitiveness, and it might be difficult -- although possible -- to prescribe uniform policie..

he government`s lack of concrete development plans and targets is hampering efforts to promote the Philippines as an alternative health tourism desti..