Exports, imports still sliding

Ben O. de Vera 10/10/2020

The value of goods exported and imported by the Philippines in August fell by more than a fifth due to still weak global demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest preliminary external trade data released by…

GSIS grants 60-day moratorium on loan payments

Ben O. de Vera 10/04/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Members and pensioners with outstanding loans from the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will enjoy a two-month payment moratorium starting November, the state-run pension fund said. In an advisory, the GSIS said the 60-day…

8-month budget gap swells to P741B due to COVID-19

Ben O. de Vera 09/24/2020

MANILA, Philippines — A pandemic-induced drop in revenues while the government spent more to fight COVID-19 widened the budget deficit by 1,510.6 percent year-on-year to P40.1 billion in August, the government reported on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.…

Gov’t debt breaches P6-T mark

Ben O. de Vera 09/19/2020

Following the issuance of a record amount of retail treasury bonds (RTBs) to small investors despite a pandemic, the outstanding securities sold by the government in the local market climbed to a new high of P6.4 trillion…

Gov’t ramps up spending to fight COVID-19

Ben O. de Vera 09/10/2020

To better fight COVID-19 and fast-track recovery from the pande­mic-induced recession, the government plans to spend a bigger amount of P2.33 trillion during the second half of this year. The latest quarterly fiscal program for 2020 released…

July unemployment rate seen worsening to 22.9%

Ben O. de Vera 08/31/2020

The unemployment rate in July likely exceeded a fifth of the labor force as more firms shed jobs during the prolonged COVID-19 lockdown, Dutch banking giant ING said. It projected the Philippines’ jobless rate hitting a new…

$4B in additional loans for COVID-19 response underway

Ben O. de Vera 08/28/2020

At least a dozen more loans worth a total of $4.02 billion (over P195 billion) will be secured by the Philippines this year and in 2021 to finance response to and recovery from the health and socioeconomic…

PH gets another $300-M loan from ADB

Ben O. de Vera 08/22/2020

Another loan worth $300 million has been extended by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to the Philippines, its host-country, this time to make financial services more accessible to Filipinos. In a statement on Friday, the ADB said…

PH to get $1.9B in new loans from World Bank

Ben O. de Vera 08/15/2020

The World Bank will approve financing for another $1.9 billion in projects in the Philippines before yearend to help the economy recover from the COVID-19-induced recession, the Department of Finance (DOF) said on Friday. Specifically, the World…

Officially a recession: PH GDP shrank 16.5% in Q2

Ben O. de Vera 08/06/2020

MANILA, Philippines–The Philippine economy contracted by a record 16.5 percent during the second quarter — at the height of the longest and most stringent COVID-19 lockdown in the region that had put a halt to 75 percent…

DOF to ban online sale of ‘sin’ products

Ben O. de Vera 07/06/2020

MANILA, Philippines — While cigarettes and liquor are enjoying brisk sales online in the time of pandemic and are delivered to the comforts of home of buyers, who may include minors, the Department of Finance (DOF) wants…

DOF firm on listing, taxing online sellers

Ben O. de Vera 06/13/2020

The Department of Finance (DOF) did not buckle to calls not to force online sellers to register with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and pay taxes while the country is battling the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…

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