Category: Media Release

TYPHOON YOLANDA PROPELS INFLATION TO 2-YEAR HIGH IN DEC.

MANILA—Typhoon Yolanda’s devastation and power hikes raised prices of basic commodities, pushing headline inflation to 4.1 percent in December 2013, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).   “Almost all food items in...

STATEMENT BY HONORABLE ARSENIO M. BALISACAN Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning, The Philippines 68th United Nations General Assembly Side Event on “Multidimensional Poverty and Multidimensional Measurement of the Post-2015 Development Agenda” 24 September 2013, New York City

For this week, we are gathered here, from all over the world, to talk about our progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals.  After all, we are expected to make an accounting in about...