The International Finance Corp. (IFC), the private investment arm of the World Bank, has appointed Riccardo Puliti as its new Regional Vice President for Asia and the Pacific.
The government has allotted more than P151 billion to sustain the major social protection service programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) sees inflation remaining elevated between 7.5 and 8.3 percent this month, well above the two to four percent target, after hitting a 14-year high of 8.1 percent in December.
Electronic fund transfers via the PESONet and InstaPay nearly touched P10 trillion last year, jumping by 37.3 percent to hit P9.94 trillion from P7.24 trillion in 2021.
The Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. (PCAFI) is urging the government to fast-track investments in inter-island container logistics to relieve the growing supply chain bottlenecks made worse by the ongoing rehabilitation of the San Juanico Bridge.
Long-time critics of the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (APECO) from Indigenous Peoples (IP) communities now express support for the agency’s renewed direction under president and CEO Gil G. Taway IV, a lawyer, who assumed leadership in October 2023.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has raised its estimate of agricultural damage from Typhoon Bising and the southwest monsoon (habagat) to ₱350,000, up from the initial ₱300,000, according to the agency's Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Operations Center.
The Department of Transportation (DOTr), in coordination with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO), launched the online driver’s license renewal through the e-Gov PH app today, Thursday.