WFH: More pros than cons

Solita Collas-Monsod - @inquirerdotnet 03/19/2022

Reader Karl Decena emailed me last Sunday, and asked, ever so politely, if I “would consider writing” on a topic of great concern to him: the Fiscal Incentives Review Board’s (FIRB) recent decision to deny a request…

Pyrrhic victory

Roberto F. de Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 12/11/2021

There are only a little over 12 days of countdown to Christmas Day when one would hope to receive from one’s true love(s) more than a partridge in a pear tree. This prelude to the presidential election…

PH ‘sinking deeper and deeper’ into debt

Ben O. de Vera - Reporter / @bendeveraINQ 02/06/2021

MANILA, Philippines — As presidential spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. wished rigor mortis on critics of the Duterte administration, the country’s economic managers scrambled to stop the economy itself from “sinking deeper and deeper” as President Duterte himself…

Dominguez vows gov’t to catch, jail UCPB cybercrime perpetrators

Ben O. de Vera - Reporter / @bendeveraINQ 09/04/2020

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief economic manager on Friday vowed to go after the cybercriminals that had victimized the state-run United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB), while ordering the government financial institutions (GFI) under his watch…

Dominguez promises enough funds to buy vaccines

Ador Vincent Mayol 08/06/2020

CEBU CITY –– Amid the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III assures Filipinos of adequate funds to purchase vaccines once these are available. In an economic forum on Thursday, August 6,…

PH getting $2.35B in soft loans from Jica in 2020

Ben O. de Vera - Philippine Daily Inquirer 06/17/2020

Even as it also struggled amid the COVID-19 crisis, Japan through its aid arm, Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), is extending to the Philippines this year some $2.35 billion (about P117 billion) in loans at low interest…

Gov’t planning to halve number of cash aid beneficiaries

Ben O. de Vera - Philippine Daily Inquirer 05/04/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The country’s economic managers are planning to halve the number of household-beneficiaries of the government’s Social Amelioration Program since there will be fewer households under enhanced community quarantine this month. The Department of Social…

The face of the nation, our economy, is our people, our workers

Fernando Fajardo 04/22/2020

It is not banks, money, GDP (gross domestic product), or anything that makes up our nation or the economy; it is our people, our workers. Therefore, until the people or our workers are still being locked-up at…

Gov’t to revamp ‘Build, Build, Build’

Ben O. de Vera - Philippine Daily Inquirer 04/13/2020

In light of the socioeconomic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Duterte administration’s ambitious “Build, Build, Build” program may be reconfigured to prioritize health infrastructure and address potential funding issues. Presidential adviser for flagship programs and…

BIR readies road map to full digital transformation

Ben O. de Vera - Philippine Daily Inquirer 11/23/2019

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is preparing a road map that will digitally transform the country’s biggest tax-collection agency to better serve taxpayers by 2030. In a recent presentation, Deputy Commissioner Lanee Cui S. David said…

Investors’ support needed to make AEC happen – PH exec

Victor Anthony V. Silva 04/06/2017

SUPPORT from investor community will be needed to build the truly dynamic regional economy aspired for in the Asean Economic Community (AEC) blueprint. Massive investments would be needed to realize the AEC blueprint, said Philippine Finance Secretary…

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