Category: Media Release

MANILA – There is a need for a more decisive, innovative, and strategic approach to further open up the Philippine services sector to realize its potential for growth and employment generation, according to the...

Ladies and gentlemen; Good afternoon.   On behalf of our colleagues in the Philippine government, I am pleased to welcome you all to this international conference on impact evaluation. Our presence here today shows...

RAY is the Government’s strategic plan to guide the recovery and reconstruction of the economy, lives, and livelihoods in the areas affected by Yolanda. It was conceived about a week after typhoon Yolanda struck...

Fellow workers from the national government agencies, colleagues from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), LGUs, civil society, academe, and non-government organizations; ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. It is an honor to join you today...

Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Let me thank the Philippine Commission on Women, headed by Chairperson Remedios I. Rikken, for organizing this event and for gathering our colleagues in government and civil society partners...

MANILA— The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) on Friday welcomed the passage of the rice tariffication bill in the bicameral conference committee, which said this bill — once signed into law and enforced...

MANILA – The National Economic and Development Authority gathered monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practitioners around the country to refine proposed guidelines on the official framework for evaluating government programs and projects. Guidelines for the...

MANILA – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) has signed on Thursday last week a joint memorandum circular putting more teeth into the regulation of reclamation activities....

MANILA—The Philippines’ new poverty index that complements the existing income-based poverty measurement, will help improve the design of development programs of the government, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said. “We congratulate the...

MANILA – Strong consumer demand and an optimistic business outlook will sustain the growth of factory output for the rest of the year, the National Economic and Development Authority said. The Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI) of the Philippine Statistics Authority for October 2018 reported that manufacturing’s Volume...