The Intramuros Administration will start relocating informal settlers from Manila’s historic Walled City, with the first batch moving to a Gawad Kalinga low-cost housing site in Trece Martires, Cavite province, in March.
President Benigno Aquino on Friday approved five projects of the National Economic and Development Authority costing P146 billion.
There is no single measure at the local level that we can use to measure Cebu’s economic performance. In the Philippines, the gross domestic product (GDP), the most widely used measure of economic performance, is disaggregated only down to the regional level, not the local level.
While the 2012 saw widespread flooding hitting Central Luzon in August, destroying about P2 billion worth of crops, no major disaster struck northern Luzon for the rest of the year.
In the middle of an eastern Chinese city’s new main road, rising incongruously from a huge circle in the freshly laid pavement, is a five-story row house with ragged edges. This is the home of the duck farmer who said “no.”
President Benigno Aquino III is upbeat about the prospects of the future Moro homeland in Mindanao, Bangsamoro, especially as a hub of information technology and business process outsourcing companies.
CEBU CITY—A 300-hectare reclaimed area owned by the Cebu City government has been cited by a top urban planner as a successful model for reclamation projects outside Metro Manila. Felino Palafox Jr., world renowned architect, said the South Road Properties (SRP) has even been drawing big businesses into the country. These include SM [...]
The Philippine government has set aside at least P1.5 billion to help more than 5,000 barangays affected by armed conflict across the country in an effort to address the roots of insurgency and secession, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process said Thursday.
The Mindanao Development Authority (Minda) is seeking an annual budget of P200 million for the management and development of Mindanao’s watersheds and river basins.
The country is presently characterized by slow and exclusive growth, where whatever little progress being achieved goes only to the rich or better-off segment of our society. Up to a fourth of the country’s labor force is either unemployed or underemployed. Not surprisingly, about a fourth of our people still live in poverty, majority in the rural areas or regions far from the more developed Metro Manila or National Capital Region.
THERE won’t be any development without cutting of trees. So said Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama as he described as “preposterous” the expectations by environment officials that there won’t be any cutting of trees in the multibillion-peso Ciudad development in barangay Apas, Cebu City.
Sell the land for development or keep the trees? Environment Secretary Ramon Paje on Saturday said the government should make up its mind before selling a property to a developer, taking into consideration the ramifications—like trees being cut—otherwise it might be too late.
Can’t this future power address in Quezon City match or even overtake Makati’s towering corporate hub?
