by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star) – 20 Jan 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines ranked 61st out of 82 countries in terms of social mobility, underscoring the need to provide an environment where individuals would have fair opportunities to fulfill their potential in life to help boost economic growth, according to the World Economic…
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By Cai Ordinario, Businessmirror, 20 Jan 2020 A ROBUST manufacturing sector is no longer the “silver bullet” that developing countries can use to escape the middle-income trap, according to experts from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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By Catherine S. Valente, TMT, with BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO, 18 Jan 2020 President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the Department of Labor and Employment’s recommendation for a total deployment ban to Kuwait, Malacañang announced on Friday.
by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star) – 18 Jan 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Locators in ecozones in the Calabarzon (Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon) area currently enjoying income tax holidays would be allowed to extend the period of their ITH commensurate to the number of days their operations are affected by the Taal Volcano eruption, the Philippine Economic Zone…
By: Daphne Galvez, NQINQUIRER.net, 17 Jan 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Two Filipinas, who were victims of human trafficking to Iraq, arrived in the Philippines on Friday, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.
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by Fred Cipres, ABS-CBN News, 17 Jan 2020 MAKATI – Nasagip ang 18 babae matapos sugurin ng mga pulis ang 2 pinaghihinalaang prostitution den sa Palanan, Makati.
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By: Linda B. Bolido, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Jan 2020 Zubuchon has successfully ventured out of Cebu through SM malls. Big businesses may get all the attention but based on government statistics, the real backbone of the Philippine economy are almost a million enterprises ranging from micro to medium.
By Bernadette Tamayo, with WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL, 17 Jan 2020 MOST of the 13 Filipinos repatriated recently from Iraq were victims of human trafficking, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Thursday.
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By Cai Ordinario, Businessmirror, 16 Jan 2020 The extended duration of paid maternity leave approved by the government allowed the Philippines to register a slight improvement in its score in the 2020 edition of the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law (WBL) index.
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By Sharan Burrow, 16 Jan 2020 Some point to fossil fuel and heavy industry workers as a reason for delaying climate action. As the global elite gathers at World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Sharan Burrow says “not in our name”. Sharan Burrow is the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation and senior…
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By Cai Ordinario, Businessmirror, 15 Jan 2020 THE Duterte administration will not be able to hit the growth targets it has set until 2022, which will also prevent it from achieving an “A” credit rating status, according to a local think tank.
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The idea wasn’t invented by today’s big-government left. It has intrigued thinkers from John Stuart Mill to Milton Friedman. By Stephen Mihm, Feb 19, 2019 Is socialism on the march in the U.S., as President Donald Trump warned in the State of the Union address this month? Hardly, but some recent proposals undoubtedly raised the…
by INQUIRER.net, 14 Jan 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Some P577.39 million worth of crops and livestock have already been ravaged by the phreatic eruption or steam-driven episode of Taal Volcano, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Tuesday.