By MBJ on October 7, 2009
MANILA – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is seriously considering the extension of her declaration of a nationwide state of calamity for at least one year to enable the government to keep a firmer control of prices especially of basic commodities, a Malacanang official said.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged dti, gloria arroyo, Jesus Arranza, Makati Business Club, manila calamity, ndcc, Ondoy, pepeng, philippine business, philippine economy, pinoy news, price commodities, price control, state of calamity |
By MBJ on October 6, 2009
MANILA – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the importation of more rice to make up for the huge losses that the agricultural sector suffered from the two typhoons that hit the country, a senior Malacanang official reported.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged arthur yap, cerge remonde, gloria arroyo, philippine rice imports, philippine rice shortage, pinoy news, rice importation, typhoon ondoy damages, typhoon pepeng damages |
By MBJ on August 6, 2009
Social Weather Stations (SWS) said the survey, taken from June 19 to 22, found that the 50 percent represented about 9.3 million families which was three points higher than the 47 percent (8.7 million families) posted in February.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged filipino poor families, philippine poor survey, pinoy news, poor filipinos, sws survey |
By SiteRocker on July 29, 2009
One in five Filipino families, or about 3.7 million families, said they have experienced hunger in the past three months, according to the latest survey SWS.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged filipino poor families survey, how many filipinos are poor, hungry filipinos, pinoy news, sws survey, sws survey for filipino poor families |
By MBJ on July 23, 2009
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed a law which aims to strengthen a government agency to make it more responsive to the needs of the people, including overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), for socialized or low-cost housing.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged gloria arroyo, hmdf, hmdf loans, housing program, low cost housing, low cost housing program, miguel zubiri, pagibig fund, pagibig loans, philippine news, philippine poor families |
By MBJ on July 10, 2009
Climate change could adversely affect rice production in the Philippines and other countries, causing it to fall by as much as 50 to 70 percent by the year 2020, a report from the London-based Oxfam International warned.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged climate change, climate change effect on rice production, philippine news, philippine rice production, philippine rice supply, pinoy news |
By MBJ on June 2, 2009
The 2008-2009 Philippine Human Development Report said the five ARMM provinces are being left behind by their counterparts elsewhere in the country in terms of the so-called Human Development Index (HDI).
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged armm, hdi, hdi philippines, human development index, mindanao, philippine human development report, philippine poverty |
By MBJ on May 30, 2009
House Speaker Prospero Nograles of Davao City in Mindanao pointed out militant groups of farmers could not continue to barricade the main entrance and exit gates of the House to press their demand for the approval of the bill.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged agrarian reform, carp, philippine congress, philippine farmers, prospero nograles |
By MBJ on May 21, 2009
Philippine rice imports may reach two million metric tons (mt) this year to ensure there is enough supply of the cereal which is the staple food of most of the 90 million Filipinos, a senior member of the Arroyo Cabinet disclosed.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged arthur yap, department of agriculture, nfa rice, philippine population, philippine rice import, philippine rice production, philippine staple food |
By SiteRocker on May 14, 2009
Unemployment among adult Filipinos reached a record high of 14 million, or 34.2 percent, in the last three months as a result of the global economic recession, according to a recent survey by a prestigious polling organization.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged cerge remonde, department of labor, dole, national statistics board, philippine unemployment survey, social weather survey, sws survey, unemployed filipinos, unemployment survey |
By MBJ on April 23, 2009
Social Weather Stations (SWS) reported the findings represented a slight decline, or a five-point drop from the 52 percent that rated themselves as poor in a survey conducted in December 2008.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged philippine economy, social weather station, survey on filipino poor families, sws, sws poor families survey, sws survey |
By MBJ on April 16, 2009
Job losses, which have been the direct result of the deepening global economic and financial slowdown, have started to taper off, a senior member of the Arroyo Cabinet claimed.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged cleep, erp, gloria arroyo, manila news, national economic development authority, neda, philippine jobs, ralph recto, socioeconomic planning |
By MBJ on April 13, 2009
More Filipinos remain optimistic in 2010 even in the face of recession and job displacements arising from the deepening global economic and financial turmoil, according to a recent survey by a polling organization.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged economic crisis, global financial crisis, philippine survey, pinoy crisis, pulse asia |
By MBJ on April 13, 2009
The head of the country’s biggest labor group is projecting a reduction of as much as 10 percent this year in the remittances of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) amid fears of more retrenchments due to the global economic and financial turmoil.
Posted in Headlines, Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged global financial crisis, labor group, labor laws, ofw buzz, ofw remittances, philippine labor laws, trade union congress philippines. ernesto herrera, tucp |
By MBJ on April 12, 2009
Despite the mass retrenchments due to the worsening global economic and financial crunch, there were fewer workers opting to go on strike in 2009, according to a senior aide of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Posted in Nation, Socio-economy | Tagged alu, economic problems, gloria arroyo, kmu, labor protest, labor srike, labor unions, mass layoff, National Conciliation and Mediation Board, ncmb, philippine economy, philippine jobs, philippine labor, philippine unemployment |
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