The Philippines has the fastest growing economy among Asian countries for the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) announced Thursday.
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday reiterated his call for the government to provide the poor with more access to capital to start their own small businesses a day after the economy registered the highest growth rate in Asia for the first quarter of 2013.
A Hong Kong Chinese businessman has bagged multimillion-peso projects involving the production and delivery of the country’s new generation banknotes.
Job creation is more important for the Philippines and not just economic growth, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said Wednesday.
The unexpected praise heaped on President Benigno Aquino III by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the country’s economic glow under his leadership is a “classic case of the student already surpassing the teacher,” Malacañang said on Saturday.
Call it faint praise, but former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday commended President Benigno Aquino III, her former student in economics at Ateneo de Manila University, over the 6.8-percent growth in the country’s gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Pres. Benigno Aquino III is still unconvinced that the Philippines should overhaul its Constitution to boost the country’s economic standing.
The Philippine population will grow by 85 percent in the next six decades, according to a forecast of a United Kingdom-based international accounting and finance firm.
The government plans to modify the diesel engines of jeepneys and other public utility vehicles (PUVs) plying Metro Manila streets in a bid to reduce soot or “black carbon” emissions.
THE Philippines’ positive economic outlook has fueled sales for luxury car brands in the country particularly BMW. “This year we are looking at more growth in terms of the number of units we sell. We are very positive we can surpass the number last year,” said Glen Dasig, Asian Carmakers Corporation (ACC) executive director for [...]
Malacañang welcomed the “significant gains” in the country’s global competitiveness.
The Philippine economy grew by 5.9 percent in the second quarter of this year, up from 3.4 percent recorded in the same quarter last year. With the recorded 6.4 percent growth in the first quarter, overall growth in the first half of the year was a respectable 6.1 percent. With these, it is more likely [...]
According to some government economists, the country’s economy has been growing steadily in the past few months that it won’t be long before the overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) decide to return and stay here for good. But the closure of a Lexmark inkjet supply plant in Lapu-Lapu City’s economic zone which is seen to [...]
