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THE NATIONAL Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) urged its partner institutions to align their programs with the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2011-2016 to help the country achieve its goal of inclusive growth.

If there’s any big disappointment that we can expect this month, it’s the announcement that the Department of Trade and Industry will be releasing the much awaited industry roadmaps, a task that had been set in motion even as early as 2004.

MACROECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS and fiscal targets for this year and 2014 were retained yesterday by economic managers as they chose to keep a “conservative stance” on growth goals.

IN 2021, the Philippines (PHL) will celebrate two monumental events: First, the country’s 500-year anniversary since the arrival of Magellan on March 16, 1521. Second, the introduction of Christianity by Spanish missionaries, and the onset of the Philippine Renaissance, brought by the growing young population, good governance, environmental sustainability, and economic stability that the country…

THE GOVERNMENT is coming up with an updated medium-term development plan (MTDP) that will be centered on “job creation” and will be presented by President Benigno S. C. Aquino III in July, a Cabinet official yesterday said.

Manila, Philippines – The Aquino administration is set to review the country’s medium-term development plan next year to incorporate mitigation measures against disasters and external shocks, Socioeoconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan yesterday said.

President Benigno Aquino addresses students and government workers in Manila on June 30, 2011, at a ceremony marking his first year in office. Aquino said he was on track to rid the country of corruption and bring economic development despite his falling popularity ratings.

MANILA, Philippines – The Aquino administration aims to reduce poverty incidence in the Philippines by 10% annually until the President’s term ends in 2016, the 2011 to 2016 Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) said.

ENVIRONMENTAL groups expressed their dismay over the recently approved 2011 to 2016 Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) in a media briefing on March 29 in Quezon City.

THE World Bank and other development partners of the Philippines have expressed confidence that the newly unveiled 2011-2016 Philippine Development Plan (PDP) would spur economic growth in the country for the next six years.

Environmental groups assailed the recently approved Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) for 2011-2016 released by the National Economic Development Authority (Neda) the other day for supposedly lacking provisions to concretize President Aquino’s social contract with the Filipino people.

PLAN EXCLUDES IMPACT OF REVERSAL IN OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENT THE Aquino administration plans to create a million jobs a year and to triple per capita income through higher economic growth and infrastructure investment in the next six years.

THE Aquino administration has proposed the establishment of a nuclear power plant in its Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) for 2011-2016, according to the country’s socioeconomic planning chief.

GLOBAL WARNING TO ‘green the MTPDP’ in an open letter Dear President Aquino: It is our interest to support your administration in its pursuit for reforms particularly in light of your social contract with the Filipino people. We see the utmost importance of a well-crafted Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP 2011-2016) in clearly defining…

NEW TAX LAWS will be pursued by the Aquino administration based on the draft 2011-2016 Philippine development plan, with officials saying a pledge not to push adjustments could be dropped by next year.

Below is a short list of the pending bills in Congress, which the same alliance of civil society groups believe, should be prioritized and passed during the current Fifteenth Congress. The list is based on the bills cited in the draft of Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) chapters; the Citizens’ Roadmap for Poverty Reduction…

THIS review comes from an alliance of Civil Society Organizations (CSO) and CSO networks which have been involved in the Millennium Term Philippine Development Plan process. These include the Caucus of Development NGO Networks, Freedom from Debt Coalition, Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development Foundation, Trade Advocacy Group, Fair Trade Alliance, Rice Watch Action…

A NON-GOVERNMENT organization on Friday questioned the Aquino administration’s inclusion of its public-private partnership (PPP) program in the country’s economic blueprint for the next six years.

A NON-GOVERNMENT organization on Friday questioned the Aquino administration’s inclusion of its public-private partnership (PPP) program in the country’s economic blueprint for the next six years. In a statement, Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) said the inclusion of PPP in a number of sections in the draft Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) for 2011-2016,…

President Aquino has finished six months of his term. He and his Cabinet appointees have had enough time to familiarize themselves with their jobs. The period of on the job training is over.

CITIZENS groups called on President Benigno Aquino 3rd to integrate environmental sustainability, climate change adaptation and mitigation and disaster risk reduction plans in the overall anti-poverty program of his administration. The “Caucus to Green the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan [MTPDP]” initiated by the La Liga Policy Institute (La Liga) issued the call during a press…

THE National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said it may ask President Benigno Aquino 3rd to extend the deadline for the draft of the country’s new six-year economic blueprint because of the government’s new “thrusts.” “We’re still discussing it [new deadlines]. Actually, the President has instructions, so we cannot just change. It has to be…

WITH the government yet to firm up its medium-term economic plan, foreign businessmen in the Philippines are recommending to President Benigno Aquino 3rd a roadmap that would boost seven industries seen driving the country’s growth in the next decade. In a statement, the Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines said it has come up with…

A FRAMEWORK designed to guide development plans for Mindanao for the next 10 years was presented yesterday to President Benigno S. C. Aquino III in Malacañan Palace.

Oct. 21–The multisectoral Fair Trade Alliance (FairTrade) asked the Aquino administration to flesh out its industrial policy amid what the group called as the new government’s “bothersome” pronouncements. “The bigger challenge of the Aquino administration is the overhaul of the trade and development policy regime that has been in place in the last three decades,”…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Medium-Term Development Plan (MTDP) for the period 2010 to 2016 contain policies and strategies that reflect the country’s commitment to prioritize the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga Jr. said.

THE National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said that the next United Nations assistance program for the Philippines would be aligned with the new government’s development priorities. In a statement, NEDA Director-General and Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga said the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for 2012 to 2016 would mirror the Medium-Term Philippine…