Tag: Analysis

WANG HONG, 29, was hooked on gambling.

NILO BINALANGBANG, 61, has been tilling two hectares of land in Occidental Mindoro -- one of the rice-producing provinces south of the Philippine capital -- for about 20 years now.

HO CHI MINH CITY/HONG KONG/SINGAPORE -- Just next to Ho Chi Minh City’s financial district, two dozen street vendors’ stalls display colorful adverts for e-wallets backed by private equity firm Warburg Pincus, ride-hailing firm Grab and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, among others.

LYSANDER R. BAGUE, a supervisor at a children’s hospital in Quezon City, has mastered the art of chatting using Facebook Messenger. He instantly reaches the people in his life by sending messages to friends and making audio and video calls to his family using the app, which is powered by his mobile data subscription.

ELECTIONS are widely believed to have a growth-inducing effect on an economy.

PROPERTY DEVELOPERS and local government units (LGUs) alike are rushing to get a slice of the robust demand for real estate projects in the so-called Bay Area, with the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) awash with almost two dozen applications to reclaim more land along the Manila Bay coastline.

What are the Philippine economic and development prospects on the basis of current performance?

HONG KONG -- Weaker economic growth and tepid price pressures in Asia will leave central banks in the region with few reasons to tighten policy next year -- especially as US rate hikes slow -- unless a new bout of currency weakness forces them to do so.

MANILA -- China banned induction furnaces last year in a crackdown on polluting producers of low-quality steel, but these machines have made their way to parts of Southeast Asia, hitting domestic steelmakers and fueling safety and environmental concerns.

LONDON -- Emerging market investors are trying to gauge whether a currency crisis and the steep interest rate hikes being used to fight it could turn into a broader slowdown and even recession.

LONDON -- For more than two decades, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has tried to avoid repeating a mistake that cost it dearly.

LONDON -- A rare synchronized expansion among major world economies that was cheered on by markets and policy makers may be already unravelling, with only the near-term prospects for the United States looking significantly better.

JAKARTA -- Over the past couple of decades, Indonesian companies have developed a tried and tested strategy to cope with the periodic plunges in the rupiah: retain dollars to protect their profits.

BEIJING -- China’s efforts to reduce its reliance on debt and find a more sustainable route to grow its economy may be derailed by...

NEW YORK -- A global regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrencies created by start-ups to finance new projects could slow the pace of virtual currency sales...

LONDON/GENEVA -- Booming global trade and economic growth have cushioned world markets against the political turbulence of Donald Trump’s first year in the White...

CHICAGO -- New dengue vaccines being developed by Takeda Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. and US government scientists are poised to provide a safer alternative to...

LONDON -- After a year of double-digit returns, one of the key questions for emerging markets in 2018 is whether they will continue to...

JAKARTA -- Implicated in five corruption scandals since the 1990s but never convicted, the speaker of Indonesia’s parliament Setya Novanto is a political survivor. Last...

WASHINGTON -- US Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell will inherit healthy economic growth and a consensus on monetary policy at least for the next...

By Krista Angela M. Montealegre National Correspondent THE START-UP ecosystem is blossoming in the Philippines, and conglomerates may be just what they need for their lift-off. A...

By Maria Eloisa I. Calderon Editor-At-Large WHEN President Rodrigo R. Duterte handily won the 2016 presidential elections, with that victory came political certainty and control of...

BEIJING -- President Xi Jinping’s rule in China has been marked by a muscular stance in many areas -- from corruption to foreign policy...