Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 584553
                    [Title] => Government hikes growth target to 5-6% this year
                    [Summary] => 
The government has revised the country’s economic growth target for the year to five-six percent from the current 2.6-3.6 percent on the back of the economy’s strong performance in the first quarter of the year.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-06-17 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 578948
                    [Title] => JP Morgan sees RP economy growing by 6.8% this year
                    [Summary] => 
US-based investment bank JP Morgan expects the Philippine economy to grow by 6.8 percent this year, revised from its earlier economic growth forecast of 4.5 percent following the country’s higher-than-expected first quarter growth of 7.3 percent.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-05-29 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 578664
                    [Title] => Economy expands 7.3% in 1st quarter
                    [Summary] => 
The economy expanded by 7.3 percent in the first quarter of the year, the highest quarterly growth recorded since the 8.3 percent-expansion registered in the second quarter of 2007 on the back of sustained dollar remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), election-related spending and a general improvement in the global environment, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported yesterday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-05-28 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 573150
                    [Title] => Government wants to keep 2011 budget deficit at P285 billion
                    [Summary] => 
The government is eyeing to keep next year’s budget deficit at P285 billion or 3.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), smaller than the projected P293-billion deficit ceiling for the year which is 3.6 percent of GDP.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-05-09 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 563801
                    [Title] => El Nino costs $213 million losses to RP agriculture
                    [Summary] => 
The agricultural losses led by this year's El Nino phenomenon in the Philippines is estimated at P9.58 billion ($213 million) at the end of March, Philippine National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) said here Tuesday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-04-06 20:14:39
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => 
                    [SectionUrl] => 
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [5] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 552826
                    [Title] => Despite El Niño, gov't retains GDP target for 2010
                    [Summary] => 
The Philippine government has decided to maintain its original 2.6 to 3.6 percent growth target for 2010 despite the possibility that this year's El Niño phenomenon will extend well into the second quarter.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-02-26 16:29:22
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => 
                    [SectionUrl] => 
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 547996
                    [Title] => Economic news that matters
                    [Summary] => 
According to the Institute for Development and Econometric Analysis, Inc. (IDEA), bids for Treasury bonds were rejected by the government as the average rate of the bids was 7.465%, higher than the market average yield of 7.3654%.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-02-10 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133814
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1288710
                    [AuthorName] => Ed F. Limtingco
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business
                    [SectionUrl] => cebu-business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [7] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 545783
                    [Title] => RP economy seen to grow 2.6% in first quarter
                    [Summary] => 
The economy may grow by more than 2.6 percent in the first quarter of the year which is the lower end of the official forecast range of 2.6 percent to 3.6 percent for 2010, a ranking Finance official said yesterday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-02-03 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [8] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 545181
                    [Title] => Government to trim 2010 budget deficit target
                    [Summary] => 
The government’s revised budget deficit ceiling of P293 billion for the year may be revised downward because of the 0.9 percent economic growth recorded last year, Acting Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Augusto Santos said over the weekend.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-02-01 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [9] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 544294
                    [Title] => 2009 GDP growth of 0.9% slowest in 11 years
                    [Summary] => 
Battered by the global financial turmoil and typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, the Philippine economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), grew by 0.9 percent last year, the slowest pace in 11 years, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported yesterday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-01-29 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

        )

)

ACTING SOCIOECONOMIC PLANNING SECRETARY AUGUSTO SANTOS

Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 584553
                    [Title] => Government hikes growth target to 5-6% this year
                    [Summary] => 
The government has revised the country’s economic growth target for the year to five-six percent from the current 2.6-3.6 percent on the back of the economy’s strong performance in the first quarter of the year.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-06-17 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 578948
                    [Title] => JP Morgan sees RP economy growing by 6.8% this year
                    [Summary] => 
US-based investment bank JP Morgan expects the Philippine economy to grow by 6.8 percent this year, revised from its earlier economic growth forecast of 4.5 percent following the country’s higher-than-expected first quarter growth of 7.3 percent.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-05-29 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 578664
                    [Title] => Economy expands 7.3% in 1st quarter
                    [Summary] => 
The economy expanded by 7.3 percent in the first quarter of the year, the highest quarterly growth recorded since the 8.3 percent-expansion registered in the second quarter of 2007 on the back of sustained dollar remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), election-related spending and a general improvement in the global environment, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported yesterday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-05-28 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 573150
                    [Title] => Government wants to keep 2011 budget deficit at P285 billion
                    [Summary] => 
The government is eyeing to keep next year’s budget deficit at P285 billion or 3.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), smaller than the projected P293-billion deficit ceiling for the year which is 3.6 percent of GDP.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-05-09 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 563801
                    [Title] => El Nino costs $213 million losses to RP agriculture
                    [Summary] => 
The agricultural losses led by this year's El Nino phenomenon in the Philippines is estimated at P9.58 billion ($213 million) at the end of March, Philippine National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) said here Tuesday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-04-06 20:14:39
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => 
                    [SectionUrl] => 
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [5] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 552826
                    [Title] => Despite El Niño, gov't retains GDP target for 2010
                    [Summary] => 
The Philippine government has decided to maintain its original 2.6 to 3.6 percent growth target for 2010 despite the possibility that this year's El Niño phenomenon will extend well into the second quarter.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-02-26 16:29:22
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => 
                    [SectionUrl] => 
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 547996
                    [Title] => Economic news that matters
                    [Summary] => 
According to the Institute for Development and Econometric Analysis, Inc. (IDEA), bids for Treasury bonds were rejected by the government as the average rate of the bids was 7.465%, higher than the market average yield of 7.3654%.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-02-10 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133814
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1288710
                    [AuthorName] => Ed F. Limtingco
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business
                    [SectionUrl] => cebu-business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [7] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 545783
                    [Title] => RP economy seen to grow 2.6% in first quarter
                    [Summary] => 
The economy may grow by more than 2.6 percent in the first quarter of the year which is the lower end of the official forecast range of 2.6 percent to 3.6 percent for 2010, a ranking Finance official said yesterday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-02-03 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [8] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 545181
                    [Title] => Government to trim 2010 budget deficit target
                    [Summary] => 
The government’s revised budget deficit ceiling of P293 billion for the year may be revised downward because of the 0.9 percent economic growth recorded last year, Acting Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Augusto Santos said over the weekend.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-02-01 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [9] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 544294
                    [Title] => 2009 GDP growth of 0.9% slowest in 11 years
                    [Summary] => 
Battered by the global financial turmoil and typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, the Philippine economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), grew by 0.9 percent last year, the slowest pace in 11 years, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported yesterday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-01-29 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

        )

)

abtest

Government hikes growth target to 5-6% this year

By Iris Gonzales | June 17, 2010 - 12:00am

The government has revised the country’s economic growth target for the year to five-six percent from the current 2.6-3.6 percent on the back of the economy’s strong performance in the first quarter of...

Business

JP Morgan sees RP economy growing by 6.8% this year

By Iris Gonzales | May 29, 2010 - 12:00am

US-based investment bank JP Morgan expects the Philippine economy to grow by 6.8 percent this year, revised from its earlier economic growth forecast of 4.5 percent following the country’s higher-than-expected...

Business

Economy expands 7.3% in 1st quarter

By Iris Gonzales | May 28, 2010 - 12:00am

The economy expanded by 7.3 percent in the first quarter of the year, the highest quarterly growth recorded since the 8.3 percent-expansion registered in the second quarter of 2007 on the back of sustained...

Business

Government wants to keep 2011 budget deficit at P285 billion

By Iris Gonzales | May 9, 2010 - 12:00am

The government is eyeing to keep next year’s budget deficit at P285 billion or 3.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), smaller than the projected P293-billion deficit ceiling for the year which is 3.6...

Business

El Nino costs $213 million losses to RP agriculture

April 6, 2010 - 8:14pm

The agricultural losses led by this year's El Nino phenomenon in the Philippines is estimated at P9.58 billion ($213 million) at the end of March, Philippine National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) said here...

Despite El Niño, gov't retains GDP target for 2010

February 26, 2010 - 4:29pm

The Philippine government has decided to maintain its original 2.6 to 3.6 percent growth target for 2010 despite the possibility that this year's El Niño phenomenon will extend well into the second quart...

Economic news that matters

By Ed F. Limtingco | February 10, 2010 - 12:00am

According to the Institute for Development and Econometric Analysis, Inc. (IDEA), bids for Treasury bonds were rejected by the government as the average rate of the bids was 7.465%, higher than the market average...

Freeman Cebu Business

RP economy seen to grow 2.6% in first quarter

By Iris Gonzales | February 3, 2010 - 12:00am

The economy may grow by more than 2.6 percent in the first quarter of the year which is the lower end of the official forecast range of 2.6 percent to 3.6 percent for 2010, a ranking Finance official said yeste...

Business

Government to trim 2010 budget deficit target

By Iris Gonzales | February 1, 2010 - 12:00am

The government’s revised budget deficit ceiling of P293 billion for the year may be revised downward because of the 0.9 percent economic growth recorded last year, Acting Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Augusto...

Business

2009 GDP growth of 0.9% slowest in 11 years

By Iris Gonzales | January 29, 2010 - 12:00am

Battered by the global financial turmoil and typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, the Philippine economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), grew by 0.9 percent last year, the slowest pace in 11 years, the National...

Business