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MARAMI ang tumutuligsa sa kontrobersyal na conditional cash transfer.

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NEDA Director General Felipe Medalla said the performance of the economy during the second quarter would be critical to the overall whole-year performance, especially since the country would be facing national elections in May.
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The Senate voted to suppress potentially damaging evidence against President Estrada in the impeachment trial Tuesday.

Ruperto Alonzo, deputy secretary general of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), tendered his resignation effective Jan. 22 after serving for two years.
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The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) disclosed in a press conference yesterday that the emerging trend based on 2000 growth figures point to a slower growth in gross national product (GNP) and gross domestic product (GDP) for 2001.
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The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said government planners are aghast at the P350-billion losses it would have to absorb through the National Power Corp. (Napocor) from independent power producers, prompting internal revisions in the evaluation of future BOT projects.
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After missing its deficit target this year by a wide mile, NEDA said that government will encounter difficulties approaching financial institutions for financing since internally generated revenues’ will not be enough of any help.
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The agriculture sector may have to settle for a mediocre one percent or even less growth rate during the first quarter of 2000 due to poor performances showed by almost all sectors.

Rolando Dy, director of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UAP) Agribusiness Institute, said almost all sectors -- grains and other crops, poultry and livestock, fisheries -- will most likely exhibit a single-digit growth rate for the January to March 2000 period.

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NEDA Director General Felipe Medalla said the performance of the economy during the second quarter would be critical to the overall whole-year performance, especially since the country would be facing national elections in May.
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The Senate voted to suppress potentially damaging evidence against President Estrada in the impeachment trial Tuesday.

Ruperto Alonzo, deputy secretary general of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), tendered his resignation effective Jan. 22 after serving for two years.
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The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) disclosed in a press conference yesterday that the emerging trend based on 2000 growth figures point to a slower growth in gross national product (GNP) and gross domestic product (GDP) for 2001.
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The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said government planners are aghast at the P350-billion losses it would have to absorb through the National Power Corp. (Napocor) from independent power producers, prompting internal revisions in the evaluation of future BOT projects.
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After missing its deficit target this year by a wide mile, NEDA said that government will encounter difficulties approaching financial institutions for financing since internally generated revenues’ will not be enough of any help.
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The agriculture sector may have to settle for a mediocre one percent or even less growth rate during the first quarter of 2000 due to poor performances showed by almost all sectors.

Rolando Dy, director of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UAP) Agribusiness Institute, said almost all sectors -- grains and other crops, poultry and livestock, fisheries -- will most likely exhibit a single-digit growth rate for the January to March 2000 period.

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