As measured by the share of tourism direct gross value added (TDGVA) to total gross domestic product (GDP), the contribution of tourism industry to the economy was estimated at 6.0 percent in 2012.

The country’s headline inflation accelerated 3.3 percent in November from 2.9 percent in October. This was attributed to higher annual increments in the indices of food and non-alcoholic beverages; housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels;…

On a monthly basis, the rate of change in the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items in the Philippines increased by 0.6 percent in November from 0.1 percent in October and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, 0.8 percent from zero…

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing slowly decreased to 5.6 percent in October 2013 from negative 6.7 percent in September 2013, compared with the year ago level, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Producer Price…

The National Statistics Office (NSO) and the Philippine Statistical Association (PSA) will hold tomorrow the national finals of this year’s Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) at the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in Quezon City. Sixteen (16)…

The country’s new construction projects authorized by building permits for the third quarter of 2013 totaled to 29,145.

Total external trade in goods for the first six months of 2013 reached $55.201 billion, representing a 4.0 percent decrease from $57.545 billion for the same period in 2012.

The annual growth in the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) picked up to 2.3 percent in October from 1.7 percent in September. A higher annual increase was noted in the heavily-weighted food index at 2.5 percent…

Total foreign investments (FI) approved in the third quarter of 2013 by the seven  investment promotion agencies (IPAs), namely: Board of Investments (BOI), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), and Subic…

Quantity of domestic trade declines, value rises In the third quarter of 2013, the total quantity of domestic trade transactions decreased by 14.7 percent, resulting to 4.87 million tons from 5.71 million tons reported during the same period of…