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External Trade Performance : April 2000

 

Total trade in goods for January to April 2000 amounted to $21.679 billion which was 7.8 percent higher than $20.110 billion last year. Imports for the first four months of the year rose by 5.0 percent to $10.404 billion from $9.912 billion. On the…
Summary Inflation Report Consumer Price Index (1994=100) : May 2000

 

Year-on-year inflation rate went up to 4.1 percent in May 2000 from 3.7 percent in April. Inflation rate a year ago was 6.6 percent.
Merchandise Export Performance : April 2000

 

Total receipts for January to April 2000 grew by 10.6 percent to $11.275 billion from $10.198 billion a year earlier. For the month of April alone, total receipts increased by 13.7 percent to $2.668 billion from $2.346 billion last year.
Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries : April 2000

 

Manufacturing Output Down in April 2000 After posting growths in the first quarter of 2000, volume of production in manufacturing declined by 4.0 percent in April 2000 according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of…
Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries : March 2000

 

Manufacturing production, as measured by the value of production index (VaPI) and volume of production index (VoPI), went up by 11.0 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively, in March 2000 according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated…
External Trade Performance : March 2000

 

Total trade in goods from January to March 2000 amounted to $16.483 billion which was higher by 8.7 percent over $15.165 billion last year. Imports for the first quarter of the year rose by 7.7 percent to $7.876 billion from $7.313 billion in 1999.…
Children's basic right to a name and a nationality upheld

 

Data on marriages presented in this release were obtained from the second copy of the marriage certificates that were registered at the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrars all throughout the country and forwarded to the National Statistics…
Summary Inflation Report Consumer Price Index (1994=100) : April 2000

 

Year-on-year inflation rate rose to 3.7 percent in April, the highest so far for the year, from 3.3 percent in March. Inflation rate a year ago was 7.9 percent.
Merchandise Export Performance : March 2000

 

Aggregate merchandise exports for January to March 2000 increased by 9.6 percent to $8.607 billion from $7.852 billion a year ago. Receipts from merchandise exports for March 2000 grew by 10.6 percent to $2.988 billion from $2.702 billion a year…
Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries : February 2000

 

Manufacturing Output Still in Uptrend Production in manufacturing industry, as measured by the value of production index (VaPI) and volume of production index (VoPI), went up by 16.7 percent and 6.8 percent, respectively according to the…