P20 per kilo price of rice ‘not yet possible’: Philippines agri chief
Department of Agriculture Secretary Dar said that this is despite the rice production cost soaring to P14.80 per kilo due to rising fertilizer and fuel costs in light of the…
Policy Matters
2022 a year of tough trade-offs: IMF deputy managing director
The Covid-19 crisis is showing signs of easing, but the crisis in Ukraine presents a new set of headaches for leaders, raising concerns over the sustainability of economic growth.
Policy implementation to help businesses access capital post pandemic: Economist
The latest data from the central bank revealed financial institutions and banks pumped more than VNĐ11 quadrillion in the economy as the end of May.
Expensive food, fuel push Philippines inflation to 42-month high of 5.4 percent
The year-on-year rate of increase in prices of basic commodities last month was the highest since the 6.1 percent posted in November 2018, when the country grappled with high rice…
Economists weigh in on ‘one of the toughest budgets in Pakistan’s history’
While citizens are already reeling from the effects of skyrocketing inflation and supercharged petrol prices, the government faces the uphill task of presenting a balanced budget,…
A healthy supply of meds at government health facilities: Malaysia health minister
The minister also said stronger collaboration with local pharmaceutical companies would include looking into the need for raw materials, aside from finished medicinal products.
Bangladesh PM calls for austerity again
She also said the government has been providing subsidies in different sectors.
China’s economy looking up on policies in coming months
Experts said they expect to see stronger fiscal policy easing, notably in infrastructure spending, to prop up growth, as well as targeted monetary policy easing to support small…
After 4 years, Chattogram Customs auction off 30,000 tonnes of hydrogen peroxide
Even after a massive explosion in Lebanon in 2020, there was no auction held to sell off the dangerous goods from the port, and it had remained in abandoned conditions since then.
EU’s sanctions on Russia weigh on own economy
Experts posit that banning “more than two thirds” of Russian oil imports to the bloc will not be easy, especially at a time when high inflation is threatening economic…