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Monday, April 27th, 2009
STIMULUS spending by countries employing its workers is helping the Philippines maintain its remittances despite the global economic downturn, a labor leader said Sunday.
Remittances make up 10 percent of the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP), and rose 13.7 percent in 2008 from a year earlier to $16.429 billion. GDP is ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Philippine universities will get a chance to pit their knowledge in finance against the top universities in the Southeast Asian region in the 10th Inter-Collegiate Finance Competition (ICFC) in Manila slated in Oct. 13, 2008.
Over 70 universities and colleges in the Philippines will be competing against Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University & ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Finance chief wants list before end of September
MANILA, Philippines—Finance Secretary Margarito Teves said he had given the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and Bureau of Customs (BoC) until the end of September to submit a final list of underperforming revenue collectors who should be dismissed from service.
Teves, who also heads ...
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