The Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC), an inter-agency body tasked to set the government’s macroeconomic targets, will meet tomorrow, Wednesday, August 18, to reassess the country’s recovery amid the mutating coronavirus. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III But ahead of the...
President Rodrigo R. Duterte will propose at least P5-trillion national budget before his term ends. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte Already, the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC), an inter-agency body tasked to set the macroeconomic targets of the country, approved late Monday, a...
President Duterte’s economic team is now seeing a brighter light at end of the tunnel as the inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) expressed optimism that the Philippine economy may return to its pre-pandemic levels by next year. DBCC The DBCC, which sets the macroeconomic...
The Duterte administration’s economic team has jacked up the government’s budget deficit ceiling for this year and next to address the pandemic and its economic impacts. The inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC), a body that sets the macroeconomic targets of the country,...
The Duterte administration’s economic team has lowered its growth assumption for this year due to the emergence of new coronavirus variants and the reimposition of strict lockdowns in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. The inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) slightly...
The Duterte administration will revisit its medium-term macroeconomic targets and fiscal program next week following a worse-than-expected economic performance in the first-quarter. In a media advisory released by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), it said the inter-agency Development...
The Duterte administration will revisit its medium-term macroeconomic targets and fiscal program next week following a worse-than-expected economic performance in the first-quarter. In a media advisory released by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), it said the inter-agency Development...
The inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) expects deeper economic contraction this year due to community quarantine measures amid the COVID-19 crisis. Following the DBCC’s meeting late Thursday, the economic managers adjusted its gross domestic product (GDP) assumption for...
The Department of Finance (DOF) sees the light at the end of the tunnel as the Senate is seen to pass the corporate recovery and tax incentives for enterprises (CREATE) bill before the Congress takes its traditional Christmas break in December. In a statement, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez...
