The impact of the pandemic is expected to lead to the first increase in global extreme poverty since 1998, effectively wiping out the progress made since 2017. Despite myriad challenges, there are encouraging...
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic underscores the importance of digitalization for economic and social resilience. COVID-19 is restricting mobility and economic activity around the world, and the Philippines...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: Manufacturing output suffered its deepest contraction in nearly two decades in April, Merchandise trade deeply contracted in April, Labor market conditions...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: The government ramped up support measures to address the COVID-19 outbreak, Manufacturing output expanded in February 2020 before ECQ, leading indicators...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: The Philippine government is taking strong measures to curb the spread of the pandemic COVID-19, The local stock exchange market index fell to below 5,000...
This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) is structured around five chapters. Chapter one provides a brief description of the country context focused on the key development challenges facing the Philippines...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: Economic growth accelerated to its fastest pace in nearly two years in the fourth quarter of 2019, Total trade expanded in December as exports grew by...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: The tepid performance of the manufacturing sector continued in October, The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) weakened in November and Inflation rose...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: The Philippine economy grew by over six percent in Q3 2019, Trade contracted for the sixth consecutive month in September and Public spending growth surged...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: Due to heightened global uncertainties and slowdown in investment spending, growth will be lower than expected; Manufacturing output declined for the ninth...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: Food manufacturing expanded for the first time in nearly a year in July, but overall manufacturing output contracted for the eighth consecutive month...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: In the Second Quarter of 2019, the Philippine economy expanded by its slowest pace in over four years, driven by a major contraction in investment largely...
This Philippines Monthly Economic Developments Newsletter includes some of the following headlines: manufacturing output contracted again in May, the Philippine Stock Exchange index marginally rose, and...
This Philippines Monthly Economic Developments Newsletter includes some of the following headlines: manufacturing output continued its contraction for the fifth month in April, budget balance was positive...
This Philippines Monthly Economic Developments Newsletter includes some of the following headlines: THE World Bank projects economic growth to recover to 6.4 percent in 2019; 5.7 million Filipinos were...
This Philippines Monthly Economic Developments Newsletter includes some of the following headlines: inflation slowed down for the fourth consecutive month in February; merchandise exports contracted for...
The headline inflation rate dropped to 5.1 percent in December, putting the full-year inflation rate above the central bank's target range. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed from 6.0 percent in November...
The Philippines registered its widest merchandise trade deficit in October as imports continued its strong expansion and export growth remains subdued. Import growth accelerated to 21.4 percent year-on-year...
South East Asia’s largest middle-income economies are highly integrated into global financial markets. While this provides considerable benefits, it also exposes them to sudden retrenchments of portfolio...
This newsletter includes the following headlines: Philippine economic growth moderated to 6.1 percent year-to-year in the third quarter; The services sector drove economic growth while the agriculture...