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Senator wants to turn some holidays into long weekends

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 17 06:32 PM

Under Tulfo's Senate Bill No. 1651, if a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, it will be observed on the following Monday. Read more »

Nat'l scientist in economics warns against rushing to pass Maharlika Fund bill

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 12 12:58 PM

The urgency to pass the Maharlika Fund bill is 'suspicious' and 'very disturbing,' National Scientist in Economics Raul Fabella said. Read more »

Myanmar junta to deport former British envoy, Japan journalist: statement

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 17 12:48 PM

Myanmar's junta said Thursday it will deport a former British ambassador, an Australian economics adviser and a Japanese journalist jailed during its crackdown on dissent and released in an amnesty. Read more »

Gobyerno sinigurong may plano sa harap ng inflation

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 18 08:56 PM

Siniguro ng economic team ng pamahalaan na may plano ang gobyerno para tugunan ang patuloy na pagtaas ng presyo ng bilihin at ang pagbagsak ng piso kontra dolyar. Read more »

Trade with China actually boosts US employment: study

Khushboo Razdan, South China Morning Post
Posted at Oct 15 10:34 AM

Most job losses between 2000 and 2014 were limited to American manufacturing sector and offset by gains in other fields, says researcher Read more »

Ex-Fed chief Bernanke, others win Nobel economics prize

Kyodo News
Posted at Oct 10 10:32 PM

Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and two other U.S.-based economists won this year's Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their research on the role of banks during financial crises, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Read more »

Robredo urges Ateneo graduates: Be servant leaders

Job Manahan and Anjo Bagaoisan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 27 09:05 PM

Robredo said it is only by sharing with the struggles of the public and seeing the realities on the ground could one serve authentically. Read more »

Ilang middle-class earners hirap pagkasyahin ang kita

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 08 08:22 PM

Iminungkahi ng isang ekonomista na isama sa bibigyang ayuda ng pamahalaan ang mga minimum wage earner at mga kabilang sa middle class. Read more »

Banks adjust business hours amid rise in COVID-19 cases

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 11 05:37 PM

A number of local banks issued advisories on their adjusted business hours amid staffing issues due to the surge in COVID-19 infections in Metro Manila. Read more »

Nobel economics prize goes to 'natural experiments' pioneers

Simon Johnson and Niklas Pollard, Reuters
Posted at Oct 11 08:07 PM

Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize on Monday. Read more »

Mga Pinoy na walang trabaho o kulang ang kita, lumobo muli dahil sa pandemya

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 30 08:13 PM

Mula sa 4 milyong unemployed noong Enero, 200,000 agad ang nadagdag sa mga jobless nitong Pebrero. Read more »

Jesse Robredo ‘legacy’ turns up in daughter’s textbook in US

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 04 03:00 PM

It was a family reunion of sorts when late interior secretary Jesse Robredo was mentioned in an economics textbook being used by his daughter, Jillian. Read more »

Ekonomiya sumadsad sa pinakamababang antas simula World War 2

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 28 10:30 PM

Pinadapa ng pandemya ang ekonomiya ng Pilipinas noong 2020, ang pinakamalala na mula noong 1947 o pagkatapos ng World War 2. Read more »

China success vs COVID-19 shows catching up with West in innovation- Nobel laureate

Karen Yeung, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 19 01:15 PM

China’s success in combating the coronavirus is a sign that it has already caught up with the United States and other Western nations in some areas of innovation, including public health policy, according to Paul Romer, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics.   Read more »

Coronavirus-hit governments should tax the rich, says study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 18 04:32 AM

LONDON - Cash-strapped nations seeking to restore virus-ravaged finances should not be "unduly worried" about economic fallout from taxing the rich, a study found this week. Read more »

US auction theory pioneers win Nobel economics prize

Simon Johnson, Reuters
Posted at Oct 12 08:53 PM

US academics Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the 2020 Nobel Economics on Monday for work on auctions hailed as benefiting buyers and sellers around the world of everything from fishing quotas to aircraft landing slots. Read more »

Pope says free market, 'trickle-down' policies fail society

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Updated as of Oct 05 03:34 AM

Pope Francis said on Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic was the latest crisis to prove that market forces alone and "trickle-down" economic policies had failed to produce the social benefits their proponents claim.   Read more »

Talamak na gutom di na lang dahil sa pandemya: ekonomista

Chiara Zambrano, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 28 09:23 PM

Ayon kay Professor Toby Monsod ng UP School of Economics, ang gutom ay dahi sa kahinaan ng pamahalaan.  Read more »

UP economists bat for selective opening of industries, random COVID-19 testing

Art Fuentes, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 23 08:23 PM

Among the sectors that can be allowed to resume operations are food and agricultural production, banking and finance, telecoms, and business process outsourcing firms. Read more »

Food aid more important than cash for Luzon poor in quarantine: UP study

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 08 01:31 PM

Government should focus more on sending food and basic goods than cash aid to families reeling from the impact of a Luzon-wide lockdown now approaching its fourth week, economists from the University of the Philippines said. Read more »