There were errors in my article last week. This is the corrected version of the article which I overhauled as a whole in view of its importance in helping us gauge the real size of the economy…
The gross domestic product or GDP measures the total value of all the final output of goods and services produced in the country at current prices or at constant base year prices. Final product means that intermediate…
THE country’s chief economist has anticipated a full-year gross domestic product (GDP) growth hitting the middle of the government’s 6.5–7.5 percent target. “If we hit close to the midrange we’ll be happy with that, higher or lower…
FIRST QUARTER Amid recovery in the agriculture sector, robust trade and manufacturing growth as well as sustained strong domestic demand, the Philippine economy expanded 6.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, the government reported Thursday. The figure,…
Slow Q4 growth of 6.6% posted last year, but 2016’s 6.8% GDP growth fastest in 3 years Business leaders in Cebu welcome the country’s strong economic performance in the last quarter of the 2016, with economy growing…
BUSINESS leaders in Cebu anticipated a good performance from the Philippine economy in the last quarter of 2016, ahead of the release of fourth-quarter domestic economic data this week. Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) president…
Increased spending on infrastructure, which is the thrust of the Duterte administration especially on improved transport facilities, is expected to grow the Philippine logistics industry by at least 300 percent in the next four years. Jonathan Cabaltera,…
Business leaders in Cebu lauded the present administration for the 7.1-percent growth of the Philippine economy during the first three months of President Rodrigo Duterte in office. However, some said this could also be owed to the…
The peso exchange rate is determined by the supply of and demand for dollars in peso terms or the supply of and demand for pesos in dollars terms in the foreign exchange market. The peso gets weaker…
President Rodrigo R. Duterte has given his go-ahead to implement economic managers’ plan to do 24/7 work on infrastructure projects, alongside a faster rollout of public-private partnership (PPP) projects. Budget Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno told reporters Tuesday…
A change in administration will have little to no effect on the growth of the Philippine economy due to huge revenue contributions from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and the information communications technology-business process management (ICT-BPM) sector, an…
The International Monetary Fund’s growth projections for the Philippines this year, although lower than the original targets and the government’s own projections, remain at a respectable level amid the global headwinds, Socio-Economic Planning Secretary Emmanuel F. Esguerra…
