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THE country`s domestic investment has been declining since 2001, according to data provided by state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Develo..

LOWER-than-desired economic growth and declining tax effort could widen the Philippines` annual resource gap to finance the Millennium Development Go..

BETTER strategies for disseminating information on climate and the weather and the construction of small-scale irrigation systems are some of the str..

Rightly or wrongly, some quarters cite management of government finances as one bright spot in the current administration’s economic scorecard. As i..

Former senator and now economic planning secretary Ralph Recto is voicing out concerns over the now controversial P52 billion Laiban Dam project in T..

The Philippines can learn a lot from South Korea’s industrial policy in terms of integrating small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into crucial growth..

It looks to me that Prof. Merlin Magallona`s reasons for claiming that the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is unconstitutional..

Too much hysterics and too little sane reasoning,is how a colleague of mine described what is going on with respect to the hearings on the Japan-Phili..

Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, warned Thursday that the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership A..

Senate President Manny Villar has expressed concern over the heavily taxed local film industry that he filed Senate Bill 1426 which seeks to reduce th..

Local stocks and the Philippine peso are expected to recover in the coming months, because of the country’s strong economic fundamentals, the Nation..

For poultry, the TRQ will provide an in-quota rate of 8.5 percent, against an MFN applied rate of 11.9 percent.For beverages, there will be immediate ..

When provincial governors threw their support behind the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), the accord gained a sizeable bloc..

The League of Provinces of the Philippines is optimistic that the ratification of the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement will boost the P..

Some P16.1 billion in import tax revenues generated from Japanese goods will be automatically wiped out once the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnershi..