The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing moved up by 1.1 percent in March 2017 from the negative growth of 6.9 percent during the same period of previous year.

The seasonally adjusted CPI for all items and non-food at the national level both moved up at a slower pace of 0.1 percent in April from 0.4 percent in March.

The Philippines’ annual headline inflation was registered at 3.4 percent in April 2017. It was the same rate posted in the previous month, while in April 2016, inflation settled to 1.1 percent. Higher annual increments were observed in the indices…

All seventeen regions posted positive economic growth from 2015 to 2016 with Eastern Visayas’ economy growing the fastest. Ten regions recorded accelerated economies during the year: Eastern Visayas (12.4 percent); Central Luzon (9.5 percent);…

The total number of all manufacturing establishments in the formal sector of the economy reached 25,197 according to the final results of the 2014 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI).

Based on the final results of the 2014 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) there were 1,778 establishments engaged in construction in the formal sector of the economy.

The number of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who worked abroad at anytime during the period April to September 2016 was estimated at 2.2 million. Overseas Contract Workers (OCWs) or those with existing work contract comprised 97.5 percent of the…

The annual increase of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) slowed down to 4.4 percent in March 2017. It was registered at 5.1 percent in February 2017 and 1.1 percent during the same month in 2016. Higher…

Inflation for the bottom 30% income households at the national level picked up by 2.8 percent in the first quarter of 2017. In the previous quarter, it was recorded at 2.0 percent and in the same period in 2016, 1.1 percent. This was mainly…

The final results of the 2014 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) showed that the country had a total of 2,690 establishments engaged in agriculture, forestry and fishing.