HIGH power and other input costs as well as weak demand may have forced factory closures, causing almost a million Filipino workers in the manufacturing sector to lose their sources of livelihood in September, according to local economists. On Wednesday, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that while the number…
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INFLATION remains a bane for workers as the number of employed Filipinos looking for side hustles increased in June, based on the latest data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). On Tuesday, PSA said the number of the unemployed reached 2.327 million in June 2023 while the underemployed reached…
President Marcos delivered on Monday his second State of the Nation Address (SONA), which focused on hot-button social and economic issues close to the heart of Filipinos. Reporting that the government was able to “revive and rejuvenate” the economy, he vowed to keep the country’s economic growth on track by…
IT would seem that unity is working for the country’s economic recovery, a local economist said after the President delivered his 71-minute State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday. Jonathan L. Ravelas, senior adviser at professional services firm Reyes Tacandong & Co., told BusinessMirror that the President’s second SONA…