Despite the government’s efforts to address the needs of the poor, a study released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said ..

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has strongly opposed a bill filed in Congress seeking to create a Philippine Trade Representative Office (P..

The trade department has expressed its opposition to congressional proposals seeking to create a trade representative office, saying such a move, if a..

(Last of two parts) MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) used funds released through the Disbursement Acceler..

THE Aquino administration makes several claims about its Disbursement Acceleration Program, but the one it uses most often to justify the illegal dive..

CEBU CITY, July 19 (PIA) — The Tourism Congress of the Philippines (TCP), the national organization of tourism enterprises created by virtue of the ..

POWER industry leaders are giving the thumbs up to Government’s creation of a long-needed multisectoral task force to cobble a master plan to solve ..

Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue. And with a relatively young popul..

MANILA, Philippines — The manner in which lawmakers were allocated funds from the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) for projects they requeste..

The protesters said that no amount of reports or studies could cloak the workers’ slide into worse conditions, and the more appalling poverty in urb..

MANILA, Philippines - The Aquino administration’s proposed budget for its flagship program for the poor known as the conditional cash transfer (CCT)..

LARGE discrepancies in the commercial price of fertilizers and the sub-optimal application of fertilizer of farmers are major challenges that threaten..

FOR the Philippines to benefit from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) economic integration in 2015, it will have to remove or revisit..

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines must pursue a new industrial policy to make its manufacturing sector competitive and take advantage of increased..

Regional economic integration in East Asia is characterized initially as a market-driven process of increased trade and foreign direct investment infl..