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Government open to alternatives to sugar liberalization plan

By Czeriza Valencia | November 20, 2019 - 12:00am

The country’s economic managers are amenable to implementing alternative solutions to improve sugar production and drive...

Business

Slow growth spooks investors

By Iris Gonzales | November 27, 2015 - 9:00am

Share prices closed lower yesterday after investors digested the third quarter gross domestic product (GDP) results released...

Business

Export revenues decline to $4.357B in January

By Louella Desiderio | March 11, 2015 - 12:00am

Revenues from the country’s merchandise exports continued to decline at the start of the year due to the weak performance...

Business

Imports up 2.4% to $63.93 B in 2014

By Louella Desiderio | February 25, 2015 - 12:00am

Philippine merchandise imports managed to post a 2.4 percent growth in 2014 even as it saw a 10.6 percent year-on-year decline in December, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.

Business

BSP keeps inflation targets

By Kathleen A. Martin | April 22, 2014 - 12:00am

The government has kept its inflation targets for this year until 2016 following an inter-agency meeting, the Bangko Sentral...

Business

NEDA chief sees economy sustaining above 7% growth

By Ted P. Torres | October 2, 2013 - 12:00am

The country’s chief economic planner said he expects the Philippine economy to expand by over seven percent in the third...

Business

4-M jobs/yr needed to eradicate poverty by 2016 – Balisacan

By Ted P. Torres | February 8, 2013 - 12:00am

The Philippines needs to generate between three to four million new jobs yearly if it is to eradicate poverty by 2016, the country’s chief economic planner said.

Business

Economy grows within government target

By Cheryl M. Arcibal and Jovan Cerda | August 30, 2012 - 11:20am

(UPDATED) Driven by the services sector, the Philippine economy in the second quarter grew within the government's target for the year, although slower than its first-quarter expansion.

Headlines

BSP says Q1 growth to determine policy stance

By Lawrence Agcaoili | April 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Monetary authorities are expected to closely watch how the economy fared in the first quarter of the year to determine the policy stance to be taken by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

Business

Phl economy likely grew by 4.5%-5.5% in Q2 - Paderanga

By Iris Gonzales | August 26, 2011 - 12:00am

The Philippine economy likely grew 4.5 percent to 5.5 percent in the second quarter of the year, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga Jr. said yesterday.

Business