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Sep 12, 2022 · MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is extending a state of calamity declared by his predecessor more than two years ago to deal with continuing concerns over the...
Aug 2, 2021 · The Philippines learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that a services- and remittances-led growth model doesn’t do too well in a global disease outbreak. Ronald U. Mendoza explains how Manila can ...
Sep 12, 2022 · Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is extending a state of calamity declared by his predecessor more than two years ago to deal with continuing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, an...
Mar 14, 2024 · The DOH emphasized that at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Philippines, there were as many as 34,903 new cases per day on average in January 2022. For healthcare utilization, the highest occupancy of total Covid-19 beds was at 71 percent and ICU beds at 74 percent in September 2021, with many more beds dedicated then, which were 35,499 ...
Apr 4, 2022 · As a consequence of the pandemic, the real gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 9.6% year-on-year in 2020—the sharpest decline since the Philippine Statistical Agency...
May 28, 2021 · Escalating new Covid-19 cases dampens recovery. The latest GDP statistics for the first quarter of 2021 showed that the Philippines economy contracted by 4.2% year-on-year, the fifth consecutive quarter of recession.
Dec 8, 2020 · Prior to these disaster events, the economy had already posted a 10 percent contraction in the first three quarters, the worst since the 1985 debt crisis, due to a plunge in private domestic demand, deep contraction in investment activities, and weak exports.
