The Philippine economy navigated a turbulent 2025 characterized by cooling growth and infrastructure scandals, even as record ...

The Philippines stands at a critical juncture where credibility has become the economy’s most valuable — and most vulnerable — asset ...

The Philippines must invest heavily in producing AI engineers, data scientists, cloud architects, cybersecurity specialists, computational modelers, and machine learning researchers. This demands a ...

Absent key and urgent reforms, especially in the last 2.5 years of the Marcos administration, expect the Philippines to embarrassingly lag behind ...

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas delivered a fifth straight rate cut at its final meeting of the year in a widely expected move.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded its Philippines economic growth outlook anew following the weaker-than-expected performance in the third quarter, with the risks to the outlook ...

Philippines marks 90 years of socioeconomic planning as Secretary Arsenio Balisacan urges stakeholders to apply historical ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $500-million (around P29.56 billion) policy-based loan to support the development of the Philippines’ blue economy. The financing for the Marine ...

The year at best is a complicated one, the fifth since pandemic and one of guarded optimism and resilience amid mounting fiscal and external pressures. The STAR’s Business Section looks back at some ...

The Philippines' economic growth slowed to a more than four-year-low in the third quarter, weighed by headwinds from a domestic corruption scandal and U.S. tariffs. Gross domestic product rose 4.0% ...

The Philippines cannot afford to ignore this lesson. Without strong local startups, we remain dependent on foreign platforms. Without homegrown success stories, our youth will continue to believe that ...