The growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) slowed down to 7.4 percent in the second quarter of 2022 compared to 8.2 percent in the first quarter. Using constant 2018 prices, the economy was valued at ₱4.99 trillion, better than the pre-pandemic GDP of ₱4.985 trillion in the...
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda is confident that, by year end, the government will have hit its economic growth targets. This, despite the fact that the Philippine economy slowed down to 7.4 percent in the second quarter of 2022. Albay 2nd...
The Philippine economy slowed in the second-quarter amid soaring consumer prices that weakened demand from both businesses and households, the government reported on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Based on the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data, the country’s economy, as measured by the gross domestic...
Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects the Philippine economy to grow at a much faster pace this year despite accelerating consumer prices. In the Asian Development Outlook 2022 Supplement report released on Thursday, July 21, the Manila-based multilateral institution raised its gross domestic...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects the Philippine economy to grow at a much faster pace this year despite accelerating consumer prices. In the Asian Development Outlook 2022 Supplement report released on Thursday, July 21, the Manila-based multilateral institution raised its gross domestic...
President Marcos’ economic managers lowered the government’s growth target for this year. The Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC), an inter-agency body tasked to set the government’s macroeconomic assumptions, expects the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 6.5...
President Marcos’ chief economic manager expects the country’s economy would grow this year at a much slower pace than the inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee’s (DBCC) target. In a briefing on Wednesday, July 6, Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said the economy, as...
Should the incoming Marcos administration make way for new taxes for the purpose of boosting government revenue? Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Economist-congressman Joey Salceda of Albay's 2nd district says it depends. "It depends on the kind of taxes. Not all...
The World Bank said the Philippine government’s debt load remains manageable despite recent acceleration amid the prolonged pandemic. Even it has ballooned, Kevin Chua, World Bank senior economist noted that the government’s debts are mostly held by Filipino creditors, long-dated IOUs and...
The Philippine economy is poised to grow at a much slower pace than government’s target this year due to intensifying global uncertainties, the World Bank said on Wednesday, June 8. Based on World Bank’s Philippine Economic Update June 2022 edition, the Washington-based lender projected that...
Presumptive President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will inherit a narrower economic growth target following a downgrading of growth forecast this year to 7.0 percent and 8.0 percent from the original assumption of 7.0 percent to 9.0 percent by the outgoing Duterte administration. The inter-agency...
The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 8.3 percent in the first quarter of 2022, higher than the 7.8 percent growth achieved in the fourth quarter of the previous year, and a significant reversal of the 3.8 percent decline a year ago. According to Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl...
