This is a re-posted opinion piece. Even before the P-Noy administration took power and came out with a reheated program called PPP, an unsolicited pr
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. A friend I met recently in a social gathering took me aside and said, “Hasn’t anybody told our current economic ma
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - With an approved budget of P238 billion for 2012 and a lot of help from the private sector, the Department of Education (DepEd
Read MoreThis is a re-posted editorial piece. With higher labor costs in China’s eastern coastal cities, attracting investors may be tough at this point. But
Read MoreRecent fiscal numbers -- the August expenditure report and the September tax collection performance by the Bureau of Customs and the Bureau of Inter
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The 37th Philippine Business Conference (PBC), the country's biggest annual business meeting in the country, is urging the gov
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday urged the Aquino administration to spend more, attract higher investments, and
Read MoreDespite efforts by the government to fast-track the approval process, only four of the 10 priority public-private partnership (PPP) projects may be
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. AS we enter into the last quarter of 2011, it becomes more obvious every day that the confidence of January has tu
Read MorePPP Projects and Policy Status As of October 17, 2011 Policy Reforms Policy Issue
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Part 2 When President Aquino unveiled the PPP program to the world on the occasion of his first state-of-the-nati
Read MoreThis is a re-posted special report. Two-thirds of the big-ticket projects under the Aquino administration’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Program
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Part I The Aquino administration’s centerpiece public-private partnership (PPP) program will have to undergo a ma
Read MoreThe 2011 GDP growth forecast for the Philippine economy has turned gloomier and gloomier. First, the Asian Development Bank, then the World Bank, th
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT’S review of its centerpiece public-private partnership (PPP) program could result in more changes to the list of projects initially p
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. The Aquino administration appears to have accepted the reality that its flagship public-private partnership progra
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The Philippines said it may offer at least two projects to investors under the so-called public-private partnership starting t
Read More(Updates with declines in stocks in seventh paragraph.) Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines said it may offer at least two projects to investors
Read MoreThe government has scaled down its projects under the so-called public-private partnership (PPP) starting this quarter from the original 10 it had p
Read MoreTHE AQUINO ADMINISTRATION’S centerpiece infrastructure program could be headed for further delays as the president has directed his economic team to
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