Economic outlook - Matches

The Department of Finance (DOF) has urged economists to support the second package of the Duterte administration’s Comprehensive Tax Reform Prog..

President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to call on Congress to approve the proposed federal charter and other measures such as rice tarrification in his..

FEDERALISM could mean more taxes and more borrowings or both, Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan said Wednesday as he stressed that charter..

No re-election for Duterte If the Senate will not agree to postpone next year’s elections, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and his allies may initiat..

'Our budget would remain the same,' claims Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, in response to Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia's ass..

Malacañang on Wednesday stressed that the proposed shift to federalism would not adversely affect the economy, after the country’s socioe..

The Senate needs a united stand against moves that it and the House of Representatives vote jointly on a report of a Malacanang-created Consultative C..

I have been asked what I thought of the recent trust and satisfaction surveys of Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations (SWS). Being from Mindanao, I&..

Philippine small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those engaged in services, are not well-connected to global value chains (GVCs) because of ..

Two opposition lawmakers on Friday (July 13) questioned the accuracy behind latest survey released by Pulse Asia, which showed President Rodrigo Duter..

AGRICULTURE Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol wants to perpetually earmark all the tariff revenues from rice imports for the sector once the quantita..

If it ain’t broke, why fix it? This is a question some pundits posed when President Duterte started tinkering with the Constitution of the Repub..

IF THE push for federalism is at core a variant of decentralization, the nation's experience with the Local Government Code that passed in 1991 is an ..

Proposed Philippine constitution would replace central with federal rule, but would also potentially allow Duterte to dodge current legal term limits ..

The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Philippines is pushing the country to take advantage of the regional economic partnerships such as the Regio..