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The minimum pay policy that Manila unilaterally imposed in 2006 was “not working,” Scalabrini Migration Center and Philippine Institute of Develop..

PLANNED CHANGES to the implementation of the 20-year-old Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) law were presented yesterday by the government in a bid to move ..

GLOBE Telecom Inc. on Friday expressed doubts about the promise of rival Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. to maintain Sun Cellular`s unlimited t..

AS THE agriculture and fisheries sector suffers from the lack of financial services, experts on the field believe there are things that can be done to..

The country needs to increase its tax effort and investment rate to help stem the currency appreciation caused by a surge in capital flows it experien..

The negotiated exemption of rice from the Philippines` World Trade Organization commitments will expire next year. As such, economists believe that th..

Keeping tax financing out of its economic-management strategy could cost the government its commitments on education, maternal and reproductive health..

PHILIPPINE Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) on Tuesday said there was `no undue advantage` in its recent acquisition of the operator of Sun Cellular..

SOCIAL WATCH Co-Convener Marivic Raquiza considers it `very one-sided` that the government monitors compliance by beneficiaries – the so-called dema..

In the next five years, the government will be enrolling even more families in the CCT; by the time President Benigno Simeon `Noynoy` C. Aquino III`s..

Plenary debates over the Reproductive Health (RH) bill at the House of Representatives went out of control as these touched on other issues that inclu..

House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman justified Wednesday the need for a reproductive health law by citing the rising unemployment figures in the countr..

MANILA, Philippines - Implementing new taxes will only be Malacanang`s last resort in generating additional revenues, Presidential Communications Dev..

Malacanang is still not keen on imposing new taxes this year, even though a state-funded think tank has recommended that the government should immedi..

ANNUAL INFLATION accelerated to 4.3% in February -- its fastest pace since May last year -- amid rising food and oil prices, the government reported o..