ANNUAL INFLATION accelerated to 4.3% in February -- its fastest pace since May last year -- amid rising food and oil prices, the government reported o..

The study recently released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), “Linking Poverty and the Environment: Evidence from Slums ..

An international trade strategy expert has urged government to revive private investment to stem the peso appreciation that puts exporters and domesti..

A recent policy note published by the Philippine Institute for Developmental Studies (PIDS) approximates that the economic cost of disasters in the Ph..

WITH slums in Metro Manila growing at 8 percent per year, a study released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) showed that thi..

The headline inflation rate at national level went up to 4.3 percent in February from 3.6 percent in January. At the same time core inflation rate ..

The monthly average peso-dollar exchange rate slightly went up to 43.4918 in November from 43.4449 in October. The domestic economy posted a GD..

The year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines continued to slow down to 2.8 percent in October from 3.5 percent in September. This was..

`EVEN the gods love jokes,` Plato wrote. But then Plato never met Imelda Marcos. Neither did the Greek thinker read the farce that is Imelda Marcos` M..

MANILA, Oct 5, 2010 (IPS) - His bones pushing against his skin, Lean Ray Francisco has been feeding on rice coffee, or coffee made from roasted rice,..

MANILA, Philippines—With the support of both the United Nations Children`s Fund (Unicef) and the World Bank, the Department of Social Welfare and De..

The annual headline inflation rate at the national level slowed down to 3.9 percent in June from 4.3 percent in May. Likewise, core inflation slig..

This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about the need not only to monitor curr..

The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on hospitals being managed by the DOH. Th..

This paper, which is borne out of the need to address scarcity of evidence-based studies on barangay financing, analyzes and evaluates key issues on ..