The year-on-year growth of the retail price index of selected construction materials in the National Capital Region (NCR) increased to 5.0 percent in July from 4.7 percent in June. The annual change in masonry materials and plumbing materials…

Intellectual Property Products (IPP) includes expenditures on research and development, mineral exploration, computer software and databases, and entertainment, literary or artistic originals.

Total Gross Revenue Index of industries accelerated by 11.3 percent in the first quarter of 2012 from the previous year’s growth of 7.4 percent. Real Estate continued to post the fastest growth at 28.1 percent, followed by Trade and Finance which…

Export earnings in June 2012 amounting to $4.310 billion went up by 4.2 percent from $4.135 billion recorded in June of 2011. However, on a monthly basis, it decreased by 12.6 percent from $4.932 billion posted in May 2012. Cumulative merchandise…

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…