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There is a lot at stake in the Philippines’ 2022 presidential polls, especially where the economy is concerned. The new president faces the formidable challenge of putting the economy on a steady course to recovery.
The Philippines’ GDP grew by 5.6 per cent in 2021 — beating the government target (...)
The Duterte administration has the distinction of having passed the most neoliberal, pro-Big Business, and pro-foreign investor measures since the presidency of Fidel Ramos.
With his economic agencies led by US-educated technocrats and advised by members of the faculty of the University of (...)
Management Association of the Philippines’ President Alfredo Pascual’s warning that the wealth tax proposed by presidential candidate Ka Leody De Guzman will result in “capital flight” should be taken not simply as speculation but as a threat—one directed at government officials who might be (...)
The recent pronouncement by presidential candidate Leni Robredo of her preference for the continuation of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) strategy of development has raised eyebrows among civil society organizations and social movements. Introduced in the early nineties by the Ramos (...)
The riders’ rights group Kapatiran sa Dalawang Gulong (Kagulong) welcomed the passage of a bill regulating motorcycles-for-hire at the House of Representatives. House Bill No. 10571 or the “Motorcycles-for-Hire Act” was approved yesterday. A counterpart bill by the Senate had earlier been passed. (...)
In reaction to a report that telecoms and IT jobs got the highest entry-level wages last year, the labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) stated that salaries of low-paid workers should rise faster than higher waged ones. “This is one way to achieve inclusive growth which is an avowed labor market (...)
MANILA, Philippines — Salaries of low-paid workers should increase faster than those earning higher wages, labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) said Thursday.
“This is one way to achieve inclusive growth which is an avowed labor market agenda of the government but is evidently not materializing,” (...)
In hushed but angry voices, some of the country’s businessmen expressed frustration over the government’s handling of the pandemic and the jaw-dropping web of questionable COVID-19-related supply deals involving the President’s men.
I felt this brewing sentiment after having dinner recently with (...)
The extension of the strict lockdown in Metro Manila and nearby provinces will likely drag on Philippine economic growth and drive investors away, several economists said on Sunday.
Extending the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the country’s main economic hub, as well as Bulacan, Cavite, (...)
The holiday season was always a busy time for 38-year-old Elsa Maniego. Around this time, she and her workmates would be abuzz with helping prepare meals for Christmas gatherings.
But the sounds and smells they are familiar with — the clink of silverware and plates, the aroma of gourmet food — (...)
In his late-night Talk to the Nation on COVID-19 on 6 April, Rodrigo Duterte, the populist President of the Philippines, echoed the affirmation of leaders from rich countries in North America, Europe, and Asia: to do “whatever it takes” for the economy to survive the pandemic. The problem, (...)
An ambitious plan to improve Manila’s water shortage is leaving Filipino villagers high and dry.
The journey to the crown jewel of China’s Philippine ambitions is long, bumpy, and dangerous. A two-hour ride from the nearest city of Infanta, on a dirt track navigable only by motorcycle or 4×4, (...)
The tragedy of Hanjin Philippines illustrates the folly of a development model that relies exclusively on a volatile global export market, has no forward or backward linkages with the national and local economies, and relies on incentives and subsidies from the host government.
Hanjin Heavy (...)
With their calloused feet testifying to a lifetime of traversing rock-strewn mountain paths, Corita and Jesus Fortunato are familiar with every corner of a lush valley straddling the river Kaliwa, in the Philippines’ Sierra Madre mountain range, where they have lived since they were born – (...)
Public imagination has a distorted picture of what Chinese FDI looks like. It’s much more than the “Belt and Road.”
In October 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to China brought an earmarked $24 billion worth of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) and overseas development aid (ODA) for (...)
12 on 12/12; Mining-affected communities, with different environmental, and climate justice groups from 12 different sites all over the Philippines conduct a simultaneous, coordinated action demanding DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu and President Rodrigo Duterte to issue an executive order officially (...)
When Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency in May 2016, he inherited an economy that was growing at an average rate of 6.2 percent annually. Investor confidence was on the upswing since the country got its first ever investment grade debt rating midway into President Benigno Aquino III’s term. The (...)
The Duterte administration heralds the next five years as the “Golden Age of Infrastructure.” Infrastructure development is envisaged to support the three pillars of the 2017-2022 Philippine Development Plan (PDP), namely malasakit (enhancing social fabric), pagbabago (inequality-reducing (...)
Since assuming office, President Rodrigo Duterte has constanly reassured the public of his promise to sustain the previous administration’s momentum for social development as well as to confront the challenges it failed to address by introducing radical changes.
Although the first few months of (...)
THE popularity of Asia’s newest and most colorful strongman keeps soaring. The Social Weather Station (SWS) reported that 78 percent of the population gave President Duterte positive satisfactory rating in June 2017; Pulse Asia, SWS’s rival in public opinion polling, submitted an even higher (...)
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