Six cities in the Philippines face the danger of strained resources as the number of people living there continue to increase yearly, warned the “Th..

MANILA, Philippines (AP) _ The Philippine capital Manila is expected to climb from the 16th to the 12th largest city in the world by 2010, officials a..

The fiscal crisis is weighing hard on the quality of education in the Philippines, economists say. In explaining the real score behind the deepeni..

The 1994-based year-on-year headline inflation rate went up by 0.5 percentage point to 7.6 percent in November from 7.1 percent in October. On the..

An economist warned recently that the abolition of the oil deregulation law could create distortions in market prices and require huge funding from th..

THE Philippines is not suffering a fiscal crisis, but it does have some serious problems, according to a former government official.

Rarely, if ever, are we wrong; and while it would take only us to point it out, still we must admit that yesterday`s editorial might be premature to ..

THE removal of quantitative restriction (QR) on rice is not propoor, a study from the Philippine Institute Development Studies said. In a study ti..

Congress is currently deliberating the consolidated bill “rationalizing” fiscal incentives in the Philippines as a way to address the fiscal cris..

“Too many people doesn’t cause poverty; bad governance and policies do.” Thus claimed a group of economists at the University of Asia and t..

The country`s two largest cigarette manufacturers have brought their battle for market control from print ads and commercials to Congress. With the..

High oil prices and increases in electricity and water rates will continue to push up prices until the end of the year and inflation, with an average..

“There is a water crisis, which is aggravated by a flawed governance of water resources.” Thus argue researchers from the Philippine Institute..

Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap is convening with concerned government agencies to tackle the issue of brazen conversion of agricultural lands i..

With China, the fastest growing partner of the Philippines, raising the interest rates by 27 basis points for the first time in nine years to tap..