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The gross domestic product is expected to grow by 5.9 percent this year due to a recovery in the agriculture sector continued robust growth in manufac..

THE ECONOMY will likely slow this year, a government think tank yesterday said, as it called for increased focus on investments, revenues and poverty..

MANILA, Philippines - Despite the national government`s resolve to stay within its 7% growth target this year, state think tank Philippine Institute..

MANILA, Philippines - Despite the national government’s resolve to stay within its 7% growth target this year, state think tank Philippine Institut..

MANILA, Philippines - If the government fails to legislate new tax measures in 2012, state think tank Philippine Institute of Development Studies (P..

A recent policy note published by the Philippine Institute for Developmental Studies (PIDS) approximates that the economic cost of disasters in the Ph..

An international trade strategy expert has urged government to revive private investment to stem the peso appreciation that puts exporters and domesti..

The study recently released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), “Linking Poverty and the Environment: Evidence from Slums ..

WITH slums in Metro Manila growing at 8 percent per year, a study released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) showed that thi..

`EVEN the gods love jokes,` Plato wrote. But then Plato never met Imelda Marcos. Neither did the Greek thinker read the farce that is Imelda Marcos` M..

MANILA, Oct 5, 2010 (IPS) - His bones pushing against his skin, Lean Ray Francisco has been feeding on rice coffee, or coffee made from roasted rice,..

MANILA, Philippines—With the support of both the United Nations Children`s Fund (Unicef) and the World Bank, the Department of Social Welfare and De..

AMID the uncertainties seen lingering for the rest of the year, the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) remains confident that it is p..

THERE is word that the government is under pressure from the big bad guys across the ocean to raise taxes again, given the record deficit that the cur..

The Bureau of Internal Revenue is preparing for the possible drop in tax collection in the second half as several laws providing tax relief come into ..