Public satisfaction with Aquino government steady
PUBLIC satisfaction with the performance of the national government steadied last quarter from the preceding three months, although the latest reading was the best...
The wealth of the 1% versus the rest of the world’s
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND -- Politicians and business leaders gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further...
Recalling martial law’s ‘lifting’; FDI lesson still to be learned
1981 should have been a pivotal year for the Philippines that had been gripped by martial law for nine years before that regime ended...
$20 oil no longer a mirage as world confronts 12-year low
THE WORLD mostly ignored Ed Morse 11 months ago when the head of commodities research at Citigroup said oil could drop as low as...
Export drop persists in November, though smallest in eight months
By Kia B. Obang
Senior Researcher
THE DECREASE in sales of the country’s goods to foreign markets persisted in November last year in the face of...
Interactive: Oil crisis then and now
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Budget balance back in surplus as state spending still falls short
ByKeith Richard D. Mariano
THE NATIONAL government’s budget balance swung back to a surplus in November, with spending continuing to fall below target even as...