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Typhoons, floods, and droughts: regional occurrence and value of damages to...

Created on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:09

Typhoons, floods, and droughts negatively impact the agriculture sector of the Philippines. Rice farming in particular is among the hardest hit because it is practiced in open areas. Furthermore, some rice-producing regions in the country are relatively more affected than others due to their greater...

Reading between the poverty lines: revisions in the official poverty thresholds...

Created on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:04

Most people have their own sense of what it means to be poor. Some think they are poor because they cannot afford a posh car while others say they are poor because they cannot send their children to school or they cannot pay their rent. Then, there are those who say they are poor because they are be...

Basic education in Albay: an analytical brief

Created on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 09:24

The local government of Albay adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework to rationalize its local development planning process. More than a decade ago, 189 countries, including the Philippines, committed to attaining the MDGs when they signed the Millennium Declaration. The MDGs,...

Enhanced K to 12 Basic Education Program: opportunities and challenges

Created on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 09:11

Education equips an individual with the necessary knowledge and skills he/she needs to become a functional member of a society. According to the World Bank, education can also be one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty, thereupon improving the well-being of the people. However, to esta...

NSO reports 13.5% hike in bldg permits

Created on Monday, 08 April 2013 05:41

Philippine Star | Business By LOUELLA D. DESIDERIO MANILA, Philippines - Approved building permits went up 13.5 percent in the fourth quarter from a year ago as developers carried out more new projects, the National Statistics Office (NSO) said. Preliminary results of the NSO’s co...

PPP may include even risky projects in agriculture

Created on Monday, 08 April 2013 05:37

Philippine Daily Inquirer | Business By RONNEL W. DOMINGO The much-touted but also much-delayed public-private partnership (PPP) may yet cover agriculture projects, but possibly with the much-maligned “take-or-pay” provisions, according to the Philippines’ chief economist. Economi...

Government eyes incentives for agriculture PPPs

Created on Monday, 08 April 2013 05:34

BusinessMirror | Top News By MAX V. DE LEON The government will dangle incentives and subsidies to make agriculture projects under the public-private partnership (PPP) scheme more attractive to businessmen and offset the inherent risks in the sector, including natural disasters, seasonalit...

RDC-1 State of the Region Address

Created on Monday, 08 April 2013 04:47

“Attaining above economic growth trajectory” was the theme of the 45-minute State of the Region Address (SORA) delivered by RDC Acting Chairman, Juan B. Ngalob during the State of the Region’s Development Conference (SORDC) at Ariana Hotel, Bauang, La Union. In his speech, Ngalob described the econ...

RDC-1 creates inter-agency task force for Results Matrix

Created on Monday, 08 April 2013 04:44

In its meeting last March 7, 2013, the Executive Committee of the Regional Development Council approved the creation of an inter-agency task force to review and firm up the macro-sectoral results matrix as input to the Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation of the Regional Development Plan (RDP) 20...

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