"The ASEAN picture is mixed in terms of international competitiveness, and it might be difficult -- although possible -- to prescribe uniform policie..

The Phil. Peso shows signs of recovery as the monthly average exchange rate went down to P54.561 in November from P55.708 in October. The headlin..

Composite Index at 1960.22 for the month of October. This is higher compared to September`s 1942.07 Value of Production Index(VaPI) for the manuf..

The monthly average exchange rate went up to 56.156 pesos per US dollar, the highest average for the year 2005. The year-on-year headline infla..

The government is not ready to face other countries in negotiating terms favorable for the country in bilateral trade deals accurding to a study by t..

he government`s lack of concrete development plans and targets is hampering efforts to promote the Philippines as an alternative health tourism desti..

The government needs to improve infrastructure and education for business process outsourcing industry to sustain the country`s advantage over competi..

Year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines slightly picked up by 0.1 percentage point to 7.2 percent in August from 7.1 percent in July...

Year-on-year headline inflation rate at the national level slowed down to 7.1 percent in July from 7.6 percent in June. The monthly average excha..

The peso-dollar exchange rate showed a reverse in its recent trend. From a constant downward movement seen beginning October of last year, the peso s..

CONCLUSION of a free-trade deal between the Philippines and Japan may face further delays after Manila rejected Tokyo’s offer allowing the entry of ..

GOVERNMENT subsidy to hybrid rice farmers cannot be scrapped at a time when the program is still taking off, Frisco Malabanan, the director of the Dep..

THE government should scrap its hybrid rice program and remove subsidies for the project to avoid wasting public resources, a study said. “There..

The exchange rate monthly average for May 2005 is P54.341, slightly lower than April`s P54.492. Composite Index closes at 1,929.38 for the month of..

A look into projects under the Philippine program of public-private sector partnerships during the period 1999-2003 showed that participation of the p..