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ArticleBoP defi­cit nar­rows to $2.1B in April

STEADY INFLOWS from remit­tances and the ser­vices sec­tor des­pite emer­ging external pres­sures helped nar­row the Phil­ip­pines’ bal­ance of pay­ments (BoP) gap to a three-month low in April, Bangko Sen­t­ral ng Pilip­i­nas (BSP) data showed. Based...

ArticlePhil­ip­pines fourth most cor­rupt coun­try among its peers in East and South­east Asia

ArticleMar­cos raises con­cern over stag­fla­tion risk

PRESIDENT Ferdin­and R. Mar­cos, Jr. warned of a pos­sible stag­fla­tion scen­ario, cit­ing the threat of slow­ing eco­nomic growth along­side per­sist­ent infla­tion, while sig­nal­ing that his gov­ern­ment may tol­er­ate higher prices for cer­tain...

ArticlePolit­ical viol­ence pos­sible if Duterte removed — GeoQuant

THE IMPEACHMENT pro­ceed­ings against Vice-Pres­id­ent Sara Duterte-Car­pio have raised the pos­sib­il­ity of fur­ther instabil­ity and polit­ical viol­ence in the coun­try, accord­ing to an assess­ment by a unit of Fitch Solu­tions. “Pub­lic...

ArticlePeso still Asia’s ‘weak­est link’ des­pite BSP policy tight­en­ing

THE PHILIPPINE PESO will likely remain the weak­est Asian cur­rency des­pite fur­ther mon­et­ary policy tight­en­ing by the cent­ral bank as the eco­nomy remains vul­ner­able to volat­ile global oil prices amid the ongo­ing Middle East war, ana­lysts...

ArticleReal impact in private hos­pit­als

ASSESSING the impact of Phil­ip­pine Health Insur­ance Corp.’s (Phil­Health) expan­ded health­care pack­ages in private hos­pit­als, Pres­id­ent Ferdin­and R. Mar­cos, Jr. and Phil­Health Pres­id­ent and CEO Dr. Edwin M. Mer­cado vis­ited St....

ArticleIran crisis exposes PHL energy vul­ner­ab­il­it­ies

THE Middle East con­flict has exposed the Phil­ip­pines’ energy vul­ner­ab­il­it­ies and needs to lever­age its chair­man­ship of the Asso­ci­ation of South­east Asian Nations (ASEAN) to steer the bloc towards expand­ing regional cooper­a­tion, a...

ArticlePHL yet to final­ize bor­row­ing plan, ADB says

THE Asian Devel­op­ment Bank (ADB) urged the Phil­ip­pines to final­ize its bor­row­ing plan for the year as the gov­ern­ment faces a rev­enue short­fall while also plan­ning to sup­port seg­ments of soci­ety clas­si­fied as vul­ner­able to the effects...