Years of robust macroeconomic growth combined with prudent fiscal policy have left the Philippines well positioned to boost public spending in 2017, with infrastructure, security and education set to benefit from double-digit increases this year. Although the fiscal deficit is set to hit a record high, the country’s positive growth outlook,...
How can the tax system be reformed to boost revenue and reduce informal economic activity?
As the ASEAN Chair in 2017, how can the Philippines further cooperate with ASEAN countries?
In what ways does the administration plan to pursue economic growth that is inclusive and accelerates rural development?
President Rodrigo Duterte assumed his six-year term as the 16th president of the Republic of the Philippines on June 30, 2016. A last minute candidate, Rodrigo Duterte won the May 2016 elections by a wide margin to become the first president from Mindanao, the country’s southernmost and second-largest island. Elections not only brought about a...
An archipelago of 7107 islands that spans an area of 300,000 sq km, the Republic of the Philippines lies south of Taiwan and east of Vietnam, and is bounded in the west by the South China Sea and in the south by the Sulu and Celebes Seas. With a complex history marked by successive waves of migration and periods of colonisation and occupation...
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