The Philippine economy expanded 5.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025, underperforming the government’s 6% to 8% growth target and signaling deeper structural issues that continue to constrain the country’s long-term economic potential, according to the latest report from De La Salle University’s Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies. The report, anchored […]

Finance Secretary Ralph Recto has highlighted that Standard & Poor’s (S&P) recent decision to affirm the Philippines’ BBB+ credit rating and upgrade its outlook to “positive” is a strong endorsement of the government’s economic and fiscal policies. “It reaffirms our stable economic and political environment and that we are on track to achieve a growth-enhancing […]