The Philippine’s annual headline inflation rate increased to 3.2 percent in July from 2.8 percent in June. This was due to higher annual increments registered in all the commodity groups except those in clothing and footwear, health, transport, and…

At the national level, the monthly growth of the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items, clothing and footwear, and restaurant and miscellaneous goods and services improved to 0.3 percent in July from 0.4 percent in June.

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing sector went down to -2.0 percent in June 2012 from 1.3 percent in May, according to the preliminary results of the monthly Producer Price Survey. The downtrend was influenced by the double-…

The annual growth in the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) increased 1.9 percent in June from 1.2 percent in May.

Based on the 2009 small area estimates (SAE) of poverty, almost half or 795 of the 1,643 cities/municipalities in the Philippines have poverty incidences ranging from 32.1 to 60.0 %, while 67 municipalities have poverty incidences higher than 60.0…

Caraga’s economy posted the fastest growth among the country’s 17 regions with an accelerated rate of 9.6 percent in 2011 from 7.4 percent in 2010. The region’s impressive growth was fueled by the 9.7 percent expansion of its Service sector and the…

Total external trade in goods for May 2012 reached $10.318 billion, representing a 14.5 percent increase from $9.011 billion recorded during the same month in 2011. This was due to the 10.1 percent increase in total imports to $5.386 billion from $4…

The annual growth of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level went up at a slower pace of 0.3 percent in May from 0.6 percent in April. Continuous annual declines were noted in the indices of crude materials, inedible except…

An estimated 5.492 million children aged 5 to 17 years were working in 2011 according to the preliminary results of the 2011 Survey on Children (SOC). In this survey, children aged 5 to 17 years who worked for at least one hour during the past 12…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing increased at a slower rate of 4.7 percent in May 2012, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). This was attributed to the…