LOCAL economists threw their support behind the proposal of Speaker Gloria Mapacagal-Arroyo to cut tariffs on certain food items to temper inflation. ..

IN the chaos that reigned on July 30, when Metro Manila private high school students filing to beat the deadline for the submission of the University ..

MANILA – The government is urged to promote social enterprises (SEs) in rural areas to provide income-generating opportunities for women, margin..

This is version 2 of a similar column I wrote a decade ago. It’s an issue worth reviving with the burgeoning capital expenditure projects the go..

Albert Einstein supposedly defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This is exactly what we had b..

A PIDS study found that women occupy merely 26 percent of the agricultural employment in the country. They also tend to be involved in weeding and har..

ASIDE from the K – 12 program, there’s another concern the Department of Education (DepEd) has to address: its Alternative Learning System..

MANILA, Philippines – Despite having earlier opposed the passage of the free tuition law, Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said the bill is now ..

'We’re providing for it. Kasama na talaga sa budget,' says Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, despite previously warning government would not be ..

Substance over form is an accounting concept which means that the economic substance of transactions and events must be recorded in the financial stat..

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kruptcy laws, leaving room for the ‘right to fail’. The credibility of courts, and the priority granted to fighting corruption and increas..

How much will the proposed shift to federalism cost? Estimates by experts vary, but they all agree on one thing: It will be huge.  The creation ..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), in partnership with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Develop..