Beefalo. Photo by Karl Young from Wikimedia Commons . The beefalo is the hybrid crossbreed of cattle and bison. Cattle are known for being docile while the bison are grown for their lean meat. Combined, the beefalo inherits the docile nature of cattle while producing lean-quality meat, the reason...
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...
Gabriela Women’s Partylist, on Saturday, May 14, slammed a report on the apparent 8.3 percent growth of the Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2022. (Gabriela Women's Partylist / Facebook) An increasing GDP indicates that a country’s economy is growing. However,...
Malacañang is confident that President Duterte will be turning over a good economy to his successor following reports of the country's growing gross domestic product (GDP) and foreign direct investment (FDI). Sec. Martin Andanar FB page Communications Secretary Martin Andanar made this statement...
The government debt as a proportion of the country’s economy inched up further in the first-quarter, supporting views that the administration of presumptive president Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will face a serious debt problem. The outstanding liabilities of the national government reached P12.679...
The economy grew faster than its pre-pandemic level in the first three-months of the year on the back of sustained growth momentum amid easing quarantine restrictions, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. From January to March, the country’s economy, as measured by gross domestic...
#MINDANAO John Tria The latest Gross Regional Domestic Product figures for 2021 recently announced by the Philippine Statistics Authority are very important numbers for people like me who live outside Metro Manila. According to the PSA website, all regions are reported to have entered positive...
All regions in the country posted positive economic growths last year, a reversal of the contractions seen at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. Data from the PSA revealed on Thursday, April 28 that all economies of 17 regions in the...
Despite easing restrictions, the economy has not yet fully returned to its investment-led growth orientation seen before the pandemic struck, the Department of Finance (DOF) said on Sunday, April 16. Finance Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said that capital formation as a percentage of real economy,...
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) has raised this year’s economic growth outlook for the Philippines to 6.5 percent from 6.2 percent on the back of robust government expenditures and recovering private sector spending. During a virtual briefing on Tuesday, April 12, Hoe Ee Khor,...
Despite external risks, the Philippines’ recovery is expected to gain traction this year as pandemic restrictions eased, allowing for more economic activities, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said. In the Asian Development Outlook 2022 report released on Wednesday, April 6, the Manila-based...