The period 2005-2007 saw a significant improvement in the revenue effort of the Philippines' Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). What contributed to the..

Data users have been effectively accessing pertinent data from respective data generators, but the changing times and demands of globalization and inn..

With the Philippine government all set to roll out its own version of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program called "Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino ..

Free trade agreements (FTAs) are seen to boost a nation's competitiveness in the global trade arena. Asia, albeit a "late bloomer" in initiating FTAs ..

It looks to me that Prof. Merlin Magallona`s reasons for claiming that the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is unconstitutional..

Too much hysterics and too little sane reasoning,is how a colleague of mine described what is going on with respect to the hearings on the Japan-Phili..

Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, warned Thursday that the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership A..

Year-on-year headline inflation rate at the national level slowed down to 2.4 percent in August from 2.6 percent in July due to the slower annual pr..

Senate President Manny Villar has expressed concern over the heavily taxed local film industry that he filed Senate Bill 1426 which seeks to reduce th..

Local stocks and the Philippine peso are expected to recover in the coming months, because of the country’s strong economic fundamentals, the Nation..

For poultry, the TRQ will provide an in-quota rate of 8.5 percent, against an MFN applied rate of 11.9 percent.For beverages, there will be immediate ..

When provincial governors threw their support behind the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), the accord gained a sizeable bloc..

The League of Provinces of the Philippines is optimistic that the ratification of the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement will boost the P..

Some P16.1 billion in import tax revenues generated from Japanese goods will be automatically wiped out once the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnershi..

Gross National Product (GNP) was recorded at $18,832M (at constant 1985 prices) during the first quarter of 2007. The figure represents a 6.64% incr..