The Department of Finance (DOF) works with various trade regulatory government agencies (TRGAs) in a series of tariff harmonization and classification workshops starting this month to gather the base data…
The Economic Development Cluster (EDC) of the Duterte Cabinet expects "moderate" inflation in the months ahead following the implementation of a slew of measures to help tame the rise in…
The Department of Finance (DOF) said the claim by Rudolf Jurado, the sacked head of the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC), that the Governance Commission for Government-Owned and…
The Department of Finance (DOF) has asked the National Food Authority (NFA) to immediately explain why it had procured palay stocks way below its projected buffer requirement in the second…
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the headline inflation rate accelerated to 6.4 percent year-on-year (YOY) in August 2018, faster than the previous month’s 5.7 percent and the 2.6…
President Duterte has signed the Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) that will boost access to credit especially of micro, small and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) and farmers and fisherfolks, and improve…
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has formed a task force to inventory sugar stocks and monitor shipments of the commodity into the country amid the increased demand for refined…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has commended the Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) for extending P655 billion in loans to rural communities as of June this year, in step…
BEIJING—The Philippines has submitted to the new aid agency of the People’s Republic of China an indicative list of 12 big-ticket infrastructure projects that will undergo feasibility studies with possible…
In a report released Wednesday, Malaysia-based RAM Ratings Services Berhad (RAM) announced that it upgraded the Philippines’ global credit rating by one notch to “gBBB2(pi),” or BBB equivalent, a notch…
