National Statistical Coordination Board Archives

The Philippine economy remained the fastest growing in Southeast Asia and second only to China’s in entire Asia-Pacific despite easing slightly in the third...

The Philippines is now the fastest-growing member of ASEAN, but it remains the poorest among the five major economies in the group, the...

The Philippines has launched a survey on the number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), a major contributor of the country's foreign exchange, a state...

The Philippines continues to hold its economic momentum, expanding an extraordinary 7.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2013, becoming the fastest growing...

President Aquino has engendered a lot of sympathy in the Philippines. However, poverty levels are stagnating and job creation remains a debilitating problem due to a lack of labour-intensive industries.

Even though the Philippines is recording record economic growth and has drawn attention from international investors due to investment grade upgrades, the unemployment rate in the nation remains the highest in ASEAN.

Politics in the Philippines is administered through a nerve-wracking bipolar order. While urban hubs led by Manila breath of diversifying industrialisation, the rest – the “provinces” – is chocked in feudalism.

The Philippine tourism industry is readied to become the muscle behind the country’s job generation machine, employing 7.4 million people by 2016, up from...