The Philippines has continued to step up to the global challenge of carrying out the difficult "balancing act" of saving as many lives as possible from the coronavirus pandemic with…
The proposed P180 billion economic stimulus plan that incorporates around P40 billion in tax credits to the private sector has already taken into account the deep contraction of the economy…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said the government has “the resources necessary” to endure the challenge of COVID-19 and its adverse economic impact, following the first-semester contraction by 9 percent…
The continuous flow of food from the country’s farms to consumers that was the result of the ongoing reforms in the farm sector initiated by the Department of Agriculture (DA)…
The Social Security System (SSS) has so far approved P15.63 billion in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) calamity assistance loans as of July 28, 2020, and another P190.02 million in unemployment…
The Action for Economic Reforms (AER) has expressed its continued support for the policy reform initiatives being pushed by the Department of Finance (DOF), particularly the measure pending in the…
As a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), the country’s consolidated General Government (GG) debt stood at 34.1 percent by end-December 2019, or down 0.3 percentage points from the year-ago…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said Thursday the government has adequate funds to purchase vaccines for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for the 20 million poorest Filipinos once these become…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has commended the Philippine National Police (PNP) for helping save millions of Filipino lives from the highly infectious and lethal coronavirus with its orderly enforcement…
The Duterte administration’s prudent fiscal management strategy has positioned the Philippines as among the countries “in good shape” to meet the challenges spawned by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic…
