Economy

Palawan PESO to increase SPES beneficiaries

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan -- The Palawan Public Employment and Services Office (PESO) is increasing the number of beneficiaries of its Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) this year. Richard Rebote,...

Change in form of gov’t won’t affect infra program: Pernia

MANILA  - - Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said infrastructure projects set to be implemented under the Duterte administration would not be affected by the planned change in the form of government. “I...

More foreign fund flows boost peso, PSEi

MANILA -- Risk-on sentiment returned to the Philippines’ financial markets Monday and enabled both the peso and the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) to stay up. The local unit finished the week’s first...

7-8% economic growth ‘doable’: FMIC, UA&P

MANILA -- First Metro Investments Corp. (FMIC) and University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) remain optimistic about achieving faster Philippine economic growth this year. In the latest issue of The Market...

2 MOUs signed at Turkey-PH meet on economic, technical cooperation

MANILA -- Two bilateral agreements on agriculture and investment promotion were signed by the Philippines and Turkey during the recently concluded Philippine-Turkey Joint Committee for Economic and Technical Cooperation (PH-TR JCETC) meeting...

Consumption, investment to boost economy in 2018: S&P report

MANILA - - Debt watcher S&P forecasts consumption and investments to regain their foothold as the main growth drivers of the Philippine economy this 2018. It projects the domestic economy to expand by...

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