The government released P4.625 trillion of its national budget for fiscal year 2026 through the end of March, representing 68.1 percent of total allotments,...
The national government's budget deficit slightly narrowed to P171.2 billion in February 2026 as the 43.52-percent surge in revenues fueled by early dividend remittances...
The government posted a slightly lower budget utilization rate of 97.7 percent in 2025 compared with 99 percent the previous year, according to data...
Keynesian theory cannot come into play to save the day when the right environment for strategic government intervention is absent.
Whenever I think of the...
The Philippine government has accumulated over P813 billion in idle earmarked funds by 2024, a result of weak oversight and outdated legal frameworks preventing...
Nomura Global Market Research has lowered its 2026 gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for the Philippines to 5.3 percent from 5.6 percent, citing...
Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), an industry-led advocacy group, is calling for increased transparency, including open bicameral conference committee deliberations, in the final stages...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is preparing to launch a prototype blockchain platform aimed at improving transparency and accountability in the...
Government infrastructure and other capital outlays declined 25.3 percent to P93.3 billion in July 2025 from a year earlier, on a muted disbursement performance...
Two of the country’s largest business organizations have expressed strong support for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s creation of the Independent Commission on Infrastructure (ICI),...
Overlapping street signs are seen at Pedro Gil corner Riverside Street in Manila. Manila Mayor Isko Moreno has ordered their removal after the signs...
Malacañang yesterday said it welcomed Senate President Chiz Escudero’s proposal for the government to draw up a “negative list” of infrastructure projects that should...
