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DOF secures $13.36B foreign loans, grants for COVID-19 response

The Department of Finance said Friday it secured $13.36 billion in loans and grants from external sources for the government’s COVID-19 response programs in...

Duterte signs P4.5 trillion budget for 2021; No items vetoed

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday signed the country’s P4.506-trillion national budget for 2021, which seeks to revive the economy ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic...

National budget making, Philippine-style

"Does it need a review?"   To say that this country’s national budget-making system leaves much to be desired is very probably the greatest understatement of...

Gaslighting

"Am I racist? Am I crazy?"   (Part I) I first heard the term gaslighting some years back when some friends from academe insinuated that a number...

’Realign security budget’

The House of Representatives Makabayan Bloc has sought the realignment of P641.5 billion earmarked for security services in the proposed 2021 budget to “address...

People’s well-being first

"The interest of trapos should never take precedence over this."     It’s a shame President Duterte had to tell Congress to do their duty of passing...

A national budget has three parts

"A national budget has three parts"   The chamber of Congress authorized by the Constitution to initiate money measures, the House of Representatives, is now on...

The vice presidency: The great mismatch

"The OVP has to be given a decent budget to do a respectable check-and-balance job."   The post-World War II political experience of the Philippines has...

Budget hearing takes nasty turn, fuels speakership row

Questions over the allocation of the public works budget next year—specifically over Taguig and Camarines Sur getting the lion’s share—have turned into a speakership...

Fernandez: Athletes, coaches receive allowances regularly

Many of the national athletes and coaches who are under the care of the Philippine Sports Commission are continuously receiving their allowances. Commissioner Ramon Fernandez...

DPWH to build separate Quezon-Bicol expressway

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PSC to support Team Philippines up to Olympics

With around P1.3 billion of its funds redirected back to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to fund the country’s Covid-19 fight, the...

Double whammy for national budgets

"Higher expenses, lower revenues."   The preparation on the annual General Appropriations Act (GAA), aka the national budget, essentially involves two numerical estimates. One of these...

Lacson bares P989-billion ‘idle’ budget for ‘19

Senator Panfilo Lacson said he wants an explanation on the need for a supplemental budget to address the COVID-19 crisis when there’s still an unused P989...
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