The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), being true to its mandate of conducting policy research in aid of planning and policymaking, ..

Water is one of the basic necessities in life, along with food and shelter. It must be clean, safe, and adequate. However, the number of people living..

What are the problems that the mining sector faces today? Can value addition help in alleviating some of these problems? Does this sector have other p..

Globalization highlights the need for public sector reform, good governance, and state capacity building. Thus, this volume highlights the key develop..

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..

The monthly average peso-dollar exchange rate slightly went down to 43.2402 in April from 43.5160 in March. The revenue collections reached P138...

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..

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

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

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

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

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