by Louise Maureen Simeon – The Philippine Star, 20 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Businesses all over the globe have turned more pessimistic on recovery prospects, with the spread of the Delta variant and supply chain disruption still the major concern.
by Lawrence Agcaoili – The Philippine Star, 19 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is pushing for the passage of a bill that aims to facilitate transactions, arrangements or exchanges of goods and services by promoting the universal use of a safe and efficient digital payments in financial transactions.
by Louise Maureen Simeon – The Philippine Star, 19 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines would have to wait until the second half of next year to see significant growth as risks of new COVID waves and still slow vaccination rollout are expected to hamper the country’s economic rebound.
by Agcaoili – The Philippine Star, 19 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Dollars sent home by expatriate Filipinos are expected to grow at a faster rate of six percent, from the original forecast of four percent this year, amid the continued reopening of economies hosting overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), according to the Bangko Sentral ng…
by Agence France-Presse, 19 Sep 2021 Exhausted nurses in the country are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract COVID or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic.
by Elijah Felice Rosales – The Philippine Star, 18 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — State-run Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) has released more than P2 billion in loans for the purchase of modern public utility jeepneys (PUJs) as part of the government’s policy to upgrade PUJs.
by Louise Maureen Simeon – The Philippine Star, 18 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The World Bank will cease the publication of its flagship Doing Business report, which was previously questioned by the Philippines, following allegations of irregularities.
by Macnamara – Agence France-Presse, 18 Sep 2021 PARIS, France — A failure to slash global emissions is setting the world on a “catastrophic” path to 2.7 degrees Celsius heating, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Friday just weeks before crunch climate talks.
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by Sheila Crisostomo – The Philippine Star, 17 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Nine of 10 Filipino smokers want a law that would encourage them to switch to less harmful alternatives to cigarettes, a survey commissioned by consumer advocacy group Vapers PH showed
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by Agence France-Presse, 16 Sep 2021 TAIPEI – In an industrial unit on the outskirts of Taipei chefs are plating meals that will never be served in a restaurant: welcome to the world of “ghost kitchens.”
by Lawrence Agcaoili – The Philippine Star, 16 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Remittances from abroad climbed for the sixth straight month in July amid the continued reopening of economies hosting overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
by Romina Cabrera – The Philippine Star, 16 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Over 26 million students have enrolled for the current school year, surpassing last year’s figures and indicating that learners who skipped classes are returning to the basic education system, according to the Department of Education.
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by Ma. Aurora Geotina-Garcia – The Philippine Star, 15 Sep 2021 In March 2021, in an article entitled “Bridging Capitalism and Inclusion,” I wrote about the emergence of this philosophy upon which the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism was formed. Quoting from their website, “We consider that inclusive capitalism is fundamentally about creating long-term value for…
by Lawrence Agcaoili – The Philippine Star, 15 Sep 2021 To boost revenue collections MANILA, Philippines — Expanding value-added tax (VAT) regimes to include imported digital services on digital transactions could help boost the Philippines’ revenue collections, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
by Felice Rosales – The Philippine Star, 15 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The construction sector suffered a decline of about 44 percent to P276 billion last year as plans to put up new buildings and expand existing structures were held off by the lockdown.
by Louella Desiderio – The Philippine Star, 15 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The pilot implementation of the COVID-19 alert level system in Metro Manila starting tomorrow is expected to generate P180 million a week in revenue and bring back about 200,000 jobs in restaurants and personal care service establishments, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said…
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