Browsing by Subject "economic analysis"

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    • Barrier reef 'too big to fail' 

      (Manila Standard, June 27, 2017, on page C3)
      Australia’s under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver is “too big to fail,” a study said Monday. The World Heritage-listed reef is the largest ...

    • Benham 

      Magno, Alex (The Philippine Star, May 17, 2018, on page 8)
      Proudly, we renamed Benham Rise to underscore our possession. It is now officially the Philippine Rise, although there is a bit of awkwardness in using the new designation. A few years ago, the Aquino government decided ...

    • Climate change will stall PH, SE Asia growth 

      Celis, Angela (Malaya, January 12, 2016, on page A1-A4)
      Climate change will stall growth in Southeast Asian countries including the Philippines. David Raitzer, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department project officer and economist, said ...

    • DA falls short of 2014 target 

      (Panay News, January 24, 2015, on page C2)
      The harvest of rice and corn may have amped up the country's full-year agriculture but not enough to hug the government's target for 2014. According to the records of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS), the farm ...

    • Good work by Duterte on climate change 

      La Viña, Tony (Manila Standard, February 4, 2017, on page A5)
      This has been a good week for climate change in the Philippines. Finally, after months of uncertainty, the Philippine government has decided to move forward on the ratification of the Paris Agreement. This was decided in ...

    • P1T marine resources remain untapped-Pernia 

      Valencia, Czeriza (The Philippine Star, June 24, 2016, on page B10)
      The Philippines has about P1 trillion worth of untapped marine wealth that can be integrated into the economy, incoming socioeconomic planning secretary Ernesto Pernia said yesterday. In a keynote speech during a special ...

    • Pernia sees P1.96-B revenue loss in Boracay Shutdown 

      Padin, Mary Grace; Villanueva, Rhodina; Mateo, Janvic; Porcalla, Delon; Romero, Alexis; Talavera, Catherine; Simeon, Louise Maureen; Romero, Paolo; Rendon, Jennifer (The Philippine Star, April 25, 2018, on page 2)
      The Philippine economy might lose around P1.96 billion due to the closure of Boracay Island, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said yesterday. During a press briefing with the Development Budget ...

    • State of calamity over Sebu fish kill 

      (Manila Standard, February 1, 2017, on page C2)
      The municipal government of Lake Sebu in South Cotabato is planning to declare a state of calamity due to another major fish kill that has seen P6.5 million worth of tilapia destroyed. Zaldy Artacho, Lake Sebu municipal ...

    • US-Asean agri-food trade: who is faring better? 

      Dy, Rolando T. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 5, 2015, on page B2-6)
      The United States is one of the largest trade partners of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. In agri-food products, the total two-way trade in 2013 was $29 billion: $10.2 billion of US exports and $18.8 billion ...

    • West Philippine Sea in the public mind: beyond sound bites 

      Bacala, Tess (Manila Standard, June 21, 2016, on page A10)
      As the Philippines heads into a new political dispensation, much of the country is watching with bated breath how the newly minted President-elect Rodrigo Duterte will sooner or later deal with the issue of China's aggressive ...