Fourteen ambassadors representing the member-countries of the European Union (EU) have expressed their continued support for the Duterte administration’s 10-point socioeconomic agenda and bared plans to invest more in the…
The Philippines moved up four notches this year to No. 99 out of 190 economies and ranked 7th among 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-countries in the annual…
Indigent senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs), along with low-income electricity consumers and small entrepreneurs, will be protected through direct and indirect social protection measures under the tax reform…
President Duterte’s economic managers have formally guaranteed highly targeted, direct and indirect subsidies plus other social protection initiatives to shield the poor and low-income households from the impact of the…
Given the rare convergence of a sustained economic expansion and unmatched popular support behind a newly elected president, the Philippines is blessed with the “elbowroom” to undertake the institutional reforms…
The Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) has lauded the tax reform program submitted by the Department of Finance (DOF) to the Congress, describing it as the groundwork for achieving the…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III lauded anew the Bureau of Customs (BOC) under the leadership of Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon for its successive arrests in just over two weeks of six…
BEIJING—Two key members of President Duterte’s economic team said today that President Duterte’s directive to his Cabinet to move “strongly and swiftly” towards the Philippines’ economic integration with its fellow-members…
BEIJING—The Philippines and China signed here Thursday (Oct. 20) an agreement that would provide Manila with a RMB100 million grant from Beijing to aid the Duterte administration in implementing projects…
Call center agents and other workers with a monthly income of at least P21,ooo and with no dependents will save at least P28,000 a year under the proposed tax reform…
