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 ..

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..

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..

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

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..

How significant is research and development (R&D) in the Philippines` overall economic development? What drives firms to locate (or not locate) their ..

What brings about the deepening poverty in urban slums? How does it compare with the rural poverty incidence? And why is it urgent that the urban pove..

The growth rebalancing model, which places the nontradable services sector on center stage, is important to spur on faster growth in this sector and t..

This paper reviews the current state of and challenges facing social protection in the Philippines. It describes the social protection institutions an..

The Philippines is a developing country with strong commitment to the millennium development goals (MDGs). However, it faces challenges in closing MDG..

Labor force statistics is one of the key tools used by decisionmakers to gauge how well (or worse) the economy is doing. Thus, an understanding of the..

With a new government in place and amid all the developments that have taken place in the past two years and that are happening at the moment, what pr..

Government think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) strengthens its contribution to policy deliberations by releasing its first ..