MANILA -- Higher importation as a result of increased domestic demand continues to cause deficits in the Philippines’ current account, which in the second quarter of 2018 stood at USD2.9 billion.
In a...
MANILA -- The administration's economic managers have proposed nine measures to immediately address food supply issues to bring inflation down by an estimated 2.4 percent.
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, in an interview after...
MANILA -- Countries in the Asia Pacific region should craft policies that enable the growth of private sector participation on transport infrastructure projects, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said.
ADB President Takehiko Nakao...
MANILA -- The National Food Authority (NFA) management assures the public that the delivery of its services will continue even as administrator Jason Aquino has requested to be relieved from his post.
In...
MANILA -- Top officers of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) are taking the 6.4 percent August inflation rate in stride, even as they called on economic managers to apply...
LEGAZPI CITY -- Albay Rep. Joey Salceda on Tuesday called for an immediate economic intervention to mitigate the effects of soaring inflation in the Bicol region.
Salceda said the 9-percent inflation rate that...
