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We have seen in the last few weeks several articles calling for more active strategic and less passive approaches toward economic growth with the sin..

Today, about 240 families lost a loved one to a tobacco-related illness. That’s an estimated 87,600 deaths in a year. In 2011, the country earned a..

WITH power comes great responsibility for the Aquino administration: water. Two days after President Aquino tackled the Mindanao power crisis during ..

The availability of clean potable water in the Philippines is decreasing because of water pollution, according to the observations made by Dr. Danilo ..

THE PHILIPPINES is looking to meet with the European Union’s (EU) lead trade official on the sidelines of the 20th ASEAN Summit to discuss the next ..

A study undertaken recently by a state-owned think tank linked the quality of roads to the level of poverty. Despite the presence of many slum areas,..

Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad stuck to the government`s 5 to 6 percent growth target for 2012, citing investor confidence, a low base of compari..

THE administration`s continued inaction on some pressing problems of the country will result in more school drop outs. Kabataan Rep. Raymond Palatin..

The United Nations has met two of its eight development goals, well ahead of the 2015 deadline. Six goals are left. The first goal, to halve the numb..

DISBURSEMENTS OF foreign aid rose last year, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said, even as it noted a drop in total foreign len..

The PIDS study titled “Rationalizing National Government Subsidies for State Universities and Colleges” authored by Senior Fellow Rosario G. Manas..

Angara noted a recent study from the Philippine Institute for Development Studies showing that the country stands to gain more economic benefit from ..

Thousands of urban slum dwellers including these in the Ulingan community in the Philippines capital of Manila (map) live amid filth and swirls of to..

A fiscal decentralization strategy to help empower local-level governments towards boosting economic activity and reducing poverty levels in their res..

Philippine decentralization had a good start in the `90s with the approval of the Local Government Code in 1991. But fiscal decentralization has suffe..