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                    [Title] => The economy
                    [Summary] => The world economic outlook is bleak – this year, next year, in fact, over the next five years, if you believe experts of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
                    [DatePublished] => 2023-06-27 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136599
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                    [AuthorName] => Tony Lopez
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                    [Title] => Vietnam overtakes the Philippines. How did this happen?
                    [Summary] => Alas, Vietnam, a backwater communist country just 40 years ago, has overtaken us in terms of per capita income.
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-11-04 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136504
                    [Focus] => 1
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                    [Title] => WFP says hunger kills more than AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis combined
                    [Summary] => 

LUSAKA (Xinhua) - Hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said in a release to Xinhua today.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-04 21:00:51 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 143322 [Title] => Government posts lower CPSD in 3rd qtr [Summary] => Reflecting its belt-tightening measures, the government posted a consolidated public sector deficit (CPSD) of P126.68 billion in the third quarter, lower than the programmed level of P130.69 billion.

Data from the Department of Finance (DOF) showed that the P126.68 billion CPSD is equivalent to just 4.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) instead of the 5.1 percent of GDP as targetted.
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The government may enter into a new two-year program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the current program expires in December this year to assure international investors that the country will continue to exercise prudence in its economic affairs, a ranking government official said over the weekend.

"The successor program is a possibility," the official who requested anonymity said. "We are still studying the merit of another two-year program. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1197311 [AuthorName] => by Jun Ebias [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 101361 [Title] => Liquidity up 15% in Nov [Summary] =>

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday a strong demand for money in November last year, an indication that economic activities have started to improve after languishing in the doldrums due to the lingering effects of the regional financial crisis.

Domestic liquidity or M3 expanded by a strong 15.2 percent as of end-November 1999, up 3.2 percentage points from the 12-percent growth in October 1999, the BSP said.

Month-on-month, domestic liquidity grew by 4.96 percent in November, a sharp turnaround from the 0.24-percent decline reported a month ago.

M3 [DatePublished] => 2000-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 101273 [Title] => Big drop in BOP surplus seen this yr [Summary] =>

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is projecting a much lower balance of payments (BOP) surplus of $2.4 billion this year compared to the 1999 surplus of $3.2 billion.

The gross international reserves (GIR), on the other hand, is expected to hit more than $17 billion this year from $15 billion a year ago.

The BOP and GIR projections, however, have to be presented to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) review team that will visit the country either by the end of this month or in February, sources said.

Sources explained that the lower BOP projection this year will be d [DatePublished] => 2000-01-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )

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