New talent to the fore in Man Booker Prize shortlist
LONDON — Judges for top British literary award the Man Booker Prize spurned big-name novelists in favor of experimental new talent as they announced their shortlist in London Tuesday.
Foreign direct investments in the Philippines
NET foreign direct investments (FDI) to the Philippines were nearly halved in June as investors waited on the sidelines for a change in the country’s leadership, according to latest data the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) released yesterday that still showed last semester’s net inflows doubling from a year ago on April’s record level. Read the full story.
Philippine trade, factory output year-on-year performance
INCREASED infrastructure spending planned by the Duterte administration should support import growth this year despite July’s drop, analysts at Nomura Global Research said in a report. Read the full story.
Comparative wages in select Asian countries
BUSINESS LEADERS and a central bank official cautioned the Executive branch on its plan to replace the existing region-based minimum wage system with one that sets a nationwide floor pay for private sector workers, saying the latter risks making the country unattractive to investors and spiking inflation beyond target besides — eventually defeating the government’s goal of spreading development from key urban hubs like Metro Manila. Read the full story.
2016 global economic crime survey
COMPANIES in the Philippines have among the lowest confidence in the ability of law enforcers to combat economic crime, placing fourth in a list of 115 economies that say local enforcement agencies are “not adequately resourced” to do so, a survey suggests. Read the full story.
Adult joblessness rate
THE RANKS of jobless Filipinos thinned marginally last quarter, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed, with one analyst saying this was due to hiring linked to the May 9 national elections. Read the full story.
