Economy

The Philippines and the European Union are exploring ways to use grants and guarantees to attract private capital into clean energy, digital infrastructure and sustainable connectivity, seeking to lower investment risks and mobilize financing for strategic projects.

Births fill classrooms, marriages build households, and deaths expose the cost of keeping a population healthy. Behind these milestones lies a bigger economic story, one that government planners cannot afford to ignore.

Puerto Princesa city officials have rolled out key investment opportunities across tourism, infrastructure, fisheries, real estate and commercial development at the 2026 Puerto Princesa City Investment Forum in Conrad Manila, aiming to draw private capital to fuel faster economic expansion.

Thirty-four business and civil society groups have urged Congress to strip unsupported project insertions from the proposed P7.2-trillion 2027 national budget, warning that questionable allocations could derail priority infrastructure, raise logistics costs, and weaken investor confidence.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has vowed to use the government’s available foreign exchange reserves and policy tools to defend the peso against further depreciation, while acknowledging that surging oil prices and supply-side constraints continue to fuel inflation.