OVER 2 million Filipinos are expected to be employed through the government’s various infrastructure initiatives this year, including the Infrastructure Flagship Program (IFP). In a briefing on Tuesday, National Economic and Development Authority OIC Undersecretary for Investment Programming Roderick M. Planta said, based on the agency’s estimates, the government’s infrastructure…
IT will take over a decade before the Philippines becomes an upper middle-income country given its current performance, according to a former Socioeconomic Planning Secretary. In an email, former National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Chief Dante B. Canlas told BusinessMirror that in order for the country to become an…
THE interagency Investment Coordination Committee (ICC) has approved a total of P1.31 trillion worth of projects in 2021, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda). Neda OIC Undersecretary for Investment Programming Roderick M. Planta said this includes 30 projects, majority of which are ongoing projects. Planta told the…
Over half a trillion pesos worth of proposed or on-going infrastructure projects could be exempted from the election ban that will take effect in March this year in preparation for the May 2022 national and local elections. In a briefing on Monday, Neda OIC Undersecretary for Investment Programming Roderick M.…
WHILE it remained at the low-level classification, water stress levels in the country increased to its third-highest level in a decade, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Based on the PSA’s Water Flow Accounts data, the country’s water stress level slightly increased to 26.7 percent in 2020 from 26.3…