Rice - Matches

THE chairman of the House committee on agriculture and food has filed a bill seeking for a tariff scheme for rice after the lapse of the waiver on the..

I am pleased to share an economic brief my colleague, Christine Tang and I wrote for GlobalSource Partners (globalsourcepartners.com) a month ago.The ..

At the end of the day, things boil down to economics. And how a country addresses issues related to economics is a measurement of the boiling point. O..

The recent controversy about rice importation is not about how much should be imported — in fact, there is no impending rice shortage—but ..

AQUINO has a lot of explaining to do.That is, Jason Laureano Aquino, the administrator of the National Food Authority (NFA) whose refusal to extend pe..

A new study by a government think tank says restrictive labor market laws prevent micro, small, and medium enterprises from flourishing despite the va..

Economic managers are pushing for rice importation by the private sector to temper rising prices of the Filipino staple food. “The stand of the ..

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RESTRICTIVE labor market laws prevent micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from flourishing despite the various fiscal incentive programs the g..

Slapping an import tariff of 35 percent on rice imports alongside reforms in the agency mandated to stabilize both the supply and prices of the Filipi..

Despite the strong interest among micro-small and medium entrepreneurs in the Philippines to expand and employ more people, this opportunity is missed..

The government’s policy on rice continues to be stuck on self-sufficiency and a conflicted practice on importation despite recommendations from ..

IT all started with a despot. In 1972  former strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Presidential Decree (PD) 4, creating the National Grains Autho..

Even a whiff of corruption, I will fire you.” This statement and variations on the theme of the “whiff of corruption,” have become P..

THE PHILIPPINES’ temporary use of quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice was intended to avert a dampening of rice prices, but the threat of the..