Caught flat-footed
Jobs creation in 2025 was a meager 172,000, far below the long-term average of around 700,000 and the target of employing one million Filipinos annually.
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Jobs creation in 2025 was a meager 172,000, far below the long-term average of around 700,000 and the target of employing one million Filipinos annually.
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Construction activity continued to slow in December 2025, with fewer projects and lower overall value compared to a year earlier.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi Arabia is scaling back plans to build 81 luxury resorts on the Red Sea by 2030, seven sources told Agence France-Presse…
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The central bank’s reassessment came after the Philippine Statistics Authority reported that full-year GDP growth for 2025 settled at 4.4 percent,…
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She cited instances in which payments for most infrastructure contracts, not just flood control, were frozen.
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The utterly deflating 4.4 percent growth for the entire 2025 was blamed on the massive slash in public infrastructure spending, as many big-ticket projects…
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What makes the fourth-quarter GDP growth special, however, is that it does capture the effects of issues that are primary and growing in the voters’ collective…
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The Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEi) took a nosedive on Thursday, dropping 2.08 percent to 6,223.36, as investors reacted to a disappointing Q4 and…
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Total approved building permits declined further in November 2025, with 12,281 permits approved, marking a 16.3 percent year-on-year drop, according to…
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The Philippines’ unemployment rate was recorded at 4.4 percent in November 2025, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Wednesday.
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Slowdown in economic growth brought about by the flood control scandal will persist heading into 2026. ‘The developments last year are likely to be faced this…
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Economists have widely cited the pullback in public infrastructure spending — largely linked to the flood control controversy involving the Department of…
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Wilcon Depot went public in 2017, raising a little over P7 billion in capital through its initial public offering. Bosch-Ong described the milestone as a…
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The number of construction projects covered by approved building permits reached 12,705 in October 2025 — a 22.6 percent drop from 16,405 in the same month…
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The immediate need will be to put food on the table, with other expenses set aside which will be disastrous for retailers of items other than food.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has joined the growing list of institutions that have downgraded their Philippine economic forecasts in the wake of the…
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