A leading economist predicted over the weekend that the inflation rate, which represents the increases in consumer prices, would top the 7.6-percent r..

Senators want more time to scrutinize the lateral attrition bill, a major component of the P80-billion tax-reform package endorsed by Malacañan to Co..

As Asian economies continue to expand, Europe, the former colonial master of many countries in the region, is now willing to talk on equal footing wit..

THE Commission on Population (Popcom) has warned that six cities in the country face the danger of draining their resources with the huge growth in th..

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..