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29 Jun 2024 – Philippines stays in global dirty money gray list

Published by rudy Date posted on July 2, 2024

https://www.philstar.com/business/2024/06/29/2366302/philippines-stays-global-dirty-money-gray-list

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25 June 2024 – Philippines lags behind regional peers in human capital development

Published by rudy Date posted on June 28, 2024

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2024/06/25/2365368/philippines-lags-behind-regional-peers-human-capital-development

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20 Jun 2024 – philippines-bottom-4-global-creative-thinkers

Published by rudy Date posted on June 21, 2024

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2024/06/20/2364210/phlilippines-bottom-4-global-creative-thinkers

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19 Jun 2024 – The Philippine Economy Is the Least Competitive in Southeast Asia, Report Says Across the Asia-Pacific region, the country ranks second to the lowest.

Published by rudy Date posted on June 21, 2024
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15 jun 2024 – Philippines still among worst countries for workers

Published by rudy Date posted on June 16, 2024
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14 Jun 2024 – Philippines slips 9 notches in gender gap ranking

Published by rudy Date posted on June 15, 2024

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8 Feb 2024 – Why Filipino students performed poorly in global learning assessments

Published by rudy Date posted on February 13, 2024

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31 Mar 2022 – PH ranked fourth globally in ‘crony capitalism’

Published by rudy Date posted on March 31, 2022

By: Ben O. de Vera – Reporter / @bendeveraINQ Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:32 AM March 31, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — With President Rodrigo Duterte as its chief executive, the Philippines remained among the countries where crony capitalism — where a few favored businessmen close to the government enjoy more economic advantages than others — has been flourishing. The…

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29 Nov 2021 – World Bank: 90% of 10-year-old PH kids can’t read

Published by rudy Date posted on November 29, 2021

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Rule of law under Duterte drops 51 places in 6 years, among Asia’s worst

Published by rudy Date posted on October 14, 2021

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Philippines lands on dreaded dirty money list anew

Published by rudy Date posted on June 27, 2021

by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), 27 Jun 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has placed anew the Philippines and three more countries on a gray, list, or those under increased monitoring after failing to address strategic deficiencies to counter money laundering as well as…

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Manila falls in global livability ranking

Published by rudy Date posted on June 10, 2021

by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star) 10 Jun 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Manila slipped six notches in the global ranking of livable cities as the COVID-19 pandemic strained its healthcare system, prompting the government to impose the world’s longest and strictest lockdown.

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Study finds Pinoy students lagging in reading, writing, math – senator

Published by rudy Date posted on December 6, 2020

by Cecille Suerte Felipe (The Philippine Star), 6 Dec 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Learning outcomes of Grade 5 students showed that a large number of Filipino learners are not proficient enough in reading, writing and math to advance to secondary school, a Southeast Asia-wide study showed, according to Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian.

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Hot money flees PH in Sept, trebling year-to-date decline — BSP data

Published by rudy Date posted on October 29, 2020

by Daxim L. Lucas, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 29 Oct 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Short-term investments left the country’s financial markets at a faster rate in September, aggravating the the total tally of foreign portfolio funds that have been repatriated by fund managers since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Banks’ bad loans highest in 6 years

Published by rudy Date posted on September 11, 2020

by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), 11 Sep 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The gross non-performing loan (NPL) ratio of the local banking industry picked up for the seventh straight month in July, hitting its highest level in almost six years as overdue loans continued to soar amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

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PHL ranks lowest out of 79 countries in reading comprehension —global survey

Published by rudy Date posted on December 3, 2019

By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News, 3 Dec 2019 The Philippines performed the poorest out of 79 countries in a reading literacy assessment conducted by the inter-government group Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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Gini Index: Philippines has the world’s 9th worst gap between rich and poor

Published by rudy Date posted on October 28, 2019

The Philippines has one of the worst cases of income inequality in the world, according to Credit Suisse in its annual global wealth report.

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Philippine retirement system among worst in the world

Published by rudy Date posted on October 21, 2019

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Manila is 3rd among 56 cities with lowest quality of life – report

Published by rudy Date posted on October 7, 2019

By: Krissy Aguilar, INQINQUIRER.net, 7 Oct 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Manila ranked poorly at third place among 56 cities worldwide with the lowest quality of life, research published by Deutsche Bank has shown.

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LOOK: The Philippines is second on the list of most dangerous countries for journalists in the world, according to the International Federation of Journalists. Iraq is on top of the list

Published by rudy Date posted on September 28, 2019

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Philippines in UN list of anti-civil society, activist countries

Published by rudy Date posted on September 24, 2019

by Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star) – 24 Sept 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines, whose relations with international bodies have turned sour, has been listed among 48 countries that registered a rising retaliation against civil society groups and human rights defenders who have been cooperating with the United Nations.

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Philippines emerges as a hateful Dark Web hub

Published by rudy Date posted on August 14, 2019

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Philippines fifth on cyber-attack list

Published by rudy Date posted on August 5, 2019

by Denise A. Valdez, BusinessWorld, Aug 5, 2019 THE Philippines moved up to fifth place from ninth a year earlier in Kaspersky Lab’s global list of countries with most online threats detected in the second quarter of 2019.

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Workers’ rights situation in Phl deteriorating — CHR

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2019

by Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star) – Jul 4, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The situation of workers in the Philippines continued to deteriorate in the past year, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said yesterday, citing the latest Global Rights Index released by the International Trade Union Confederation.

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Study: PHL policies impede innovative drugs’ development

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2019

By Elijah Felice Rosales, Businessmirror, Jul 4, 2019 THE Philippines has one of the most restrictive trade regimes in Southeast Asia for pharmaceutical items in spite of rising consumer spending on health, according to a study.

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Porn in the Philippines

Published by rudy Date posted on May 6, 2019

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Almost 9 out of 10 Pinoys ‘very/fairly happy’ with their lives —SWS 4Q 2018 poll

Published by rudy Date posted on March 17, 2019

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Which countries are safest, and which are not in 2019?

Published by rudy Date posted on January 31, 2019

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PH ranks 2nd in Asia-Pacific in deaths due to household pollution

Published by rudy Date posted on May 3, 2018

by Jovic Yee, Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 03, 2018 Pollution caused by traditional cooking fuel is killing people in the Philippines at higher rates than those in most other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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