Mactan, Cebu—Infrastructure spending meant to further strengthen regional connectivity within the ASEAN plus the benefits of such investments to the sustainable growth of the region’s 10 member-economies will take center stage in this year’s 12th session of the ASEAN Finance Ministers Investors Seminar (AFMIS).
Read MoreLAPU-LAPU CITY—Finance ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are set to exchange views on further harnessing investment opportunities within the 10-member regional bloc amid the current slowdown in global growth when they meet in this Central Visayan city on Thursday for the 12th session of the ASEAN Finance Ministers Investors Seminar (AFMIS).
Read MoreThe rate of increase in consumer prices likely quickened further last month owing to a weaker peso that pushed up food, power and fuel prices, the Department of Finance (DOF) said today.
Read MoreThe island of Mactan in the province of Cebu is hosting this week the 12thASEAN Finance Ministers Investors Seminar (AFMIS), which aims to tackle ways of further harnessing investment opportunities within the 10-member regional bloc that has emerged as a key driver of global growth amid the current risks to the world economy.
Read MoreThe main authors of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) in the Congress said their combined proposals to convert the current tax system into a more progressive one will help unlock the full potentials of the Philippine economy and ensure a brighter future for the country’s young Filipinos.
Read MoreHONG KONG—With the Philippines free of its debt load and reaping investment-grade status, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has called on potential investors to help rewrite the Philippines’ growth story by taking part in the country’s nascent drive to finally close its infrastructure backlog that has for decades blunted its regional competitiveness as an investment hub.
Read MoreThe Department of Health (DOH) is backing the Department of Finance (DOF)’s campaign to expose, and run after, tax cheats in the cigarette industry, in which just an additional P1 billion in unpaid taxes could have been spent to procure medicines and pay for the medical treatment of some 5.7 million indigent Filipinos afflicted with hypertension and diabetes.
Read MoreFinance ministers and central bank governors from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are meeting next week in Mactan island in the province of Cebu to discuss ways of fleshing out ASEAN’s commitments to financial integration and cooperation, against the backdrop of a new wave of protectionism and other uncertainties in the global economy.
Read More‘Productive’ engagements between PHL, Japan fitting birthday gift to PRRD
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