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Both the economics and the politics of current fiscal policy seem flawed.
Yesterday the Department of Finance trumpeted the news that the government in April posted the largest fiscal surplus in 25 years. The PDI reports today that
The Aquino administration posted a [...]
Continue Reading →A news bulletin was released earlier this week with very little fanfare on the latest round of results for the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (or FIES). It showed that between 2006 and 2009, there was an improvement in the overall incomes, savings and expenditures [...]
Continue Reading →Forum cites development tasks
BusinessWorld Online
ASIA is now increasingly the focus of growth in the world, but individual economies like the Philippines and similarly less developed markets have to identify sectors that need support in order to boost their competitiveness, experts said at a [...]
Continue Reading →After unveiling his strategy for unblocking investments in public infrastructure, the policy statement of PNoy was drawing flak from all sides. The statement concerned his proposed method for mitigating regulatory risk which was to compensate private investors for any losses caused by legal or congressional [...]
Continue Reading →Aquino to protect big infra investors
Philippine Daily Inquirer
President Benigno Aquino III Thursday said that his administration would compensate investors prevented by the courts or Congress from collecting contractually agreed toll or user fees.
“If for some reason, a court decision threatens the adjustment, the government [...]
Continue Reading →ODA use just slightly better in first half
BusinessWorld Online
THE GOVERNMENT slightly improved its use of official development assistance (ODA) in the first half, compared to the same period last year, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said in a press release yesterday.
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Continue Reading →(Reuters) – The Philippines’ budget deficit could fall to 2.5 percent of GDP in 2011 if economic growth hits 7 percent, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said on Wednesday.
“Assuming we attain the 7 percent target… the deficit will be much lower than what was expected,” Purisima told [...]
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- There's too much fun in the Philippines
There’s too much fun in the Philippines
A certain pizza place we shall now disguise behind the name Norwich Pizza had been acquired by a large food conglomerate we shall call Bumblebee Food Corporation for purposes of…
- Pseudo-trial
Pseudo-trial
What happens when social media takesover the justice system?
As per the Julian Assange case in Britain where the WikiLeaks founder may find out about his fate through the social networking…
- The Thai experience
The Thai experience (or why P-Noy …
The Philippines it seems is engulfed in all things Hollywood at the moment. With the filming of the Bourne Legacy taking place in Manila filling the nightly news with human…
