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                    [Title] => Agri sector grows 3.17% in H1
                    [Summary] => The agricultural sector managed to post a 3.17-percent growth during the first semester of the year despite strong typhoons and the prospects of a prolonged dry spell, the Department of Agriculture (DA) reported yesterday.
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                    [Title] => Without tariff, imported cement seen to flood RP
                    [Summary] => Amid indications that government may revoke the P20.60 provisional tariff on imported cement, imports are expected to once more corner at least 35 percent of the domestic market, further endangering the already-vulnerable local cement industry.


Industry figures show that in March alone, importers brought in 3,312,500 bags of cement into the country, or nearly 50 percent more than the February figure of 2,227,500 bags, and more than 200 percent higher than the January imports of 1,062,500 bags.


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                    [Title] => January inflation rate seen at 4%
                    [Summary] => Encouraged by stable food supply, low oil prices in the world market and a manageable budget deficit, government said it may revise its inflation targets for 2002 from five to six percent to only four to five percent for the whole year.


Socio-economic Planning Secretary Dante Canlas told reporters yesterday that government has begun revisiting its key economic figures and although no decision has been made, it may revise the national average inflation rate target for the year.


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                    [Title] => Government may let foreigners exercise property rights on real estate assets
                    [Summary] => Government is drafting a policy that will allow foreign companies to hold on to real estate assets without violating the constitutional prohibition against land ownership by foreign entities.


Socio-economic  Planning Secretary Dante Canlas said the Arroyo administration will include the policy in its urgent measures intended to address the short-term impact of the economic disruption caused by the US-Afghanistan war.


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                    [Title] => Senator welcomes plan to revise economic targets
                    [Summary] => Opposition Senator Teresa Aquino Oreta welcomed Malacanang’s reported plan to revise economic growth targets amid the realities in the global arena pointing to a slower recovery pace for economies worldwide following the Sept.
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                    [Title] => BSP keeps key rates steady
                    [Summary] => The Bangko  Sentral ng Pilipinas decided to leave overnight interest rates steady at the weekly meeting of its policy-making Monetary Board yesterday. 


The overnight borrowing rate stands at 9.0 percent and the lending rate at 11.25 percent. 


The BSP, which held an emergency meeting on Tuesday after the US Federal Reserve cut its target rate by 50 basis points, opted to keep the rates unchanged because of possible oil price increases in the coming weeks. 


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                    [Title] => No plan to scale down targets — GMA
                    [Summary] => TOKYO (via PLDT) — The government has no intention so far of scaling down its growth targets for the year despite predictions of a further slowdown in the global economy following the unprecedented terrorist attack in the United States.


In an interview at the Imperial Hotel here, President Arroyo said she will meet soon with her economic managers to reassess the country’s economic position vis-a-vis the terrorist attack in the US. She expressed confidence that there will be no need to reduce the government’s growth targets.


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PLANNING SECRETARY DANTE CANLAS

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Socio-economic Planning Secretary Dante Canlas told reporters yesterday that government has begun revisiting its key economic figures and although no decision has been made, it may revise the national average inflation rate target for the year.


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Socio-economic  Planning Secretary Dante Canlas said the Arroyo administration will include the policy in its urgent measures intended to address the short-term impact of the economic disruption caused by the US-Afghanistan war.


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The overnight borrowing rate stands at 9.0 percent and the lending rate at 11.25 percent. 


The BSP, which held an emergency meeting on Tuesday after the US Federal Reserve cut its target rate by 50 basis points, opted to keep the rates unchanged because of possible oil price increases in the coming weeks. 


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In an interview at the Imperial Hotel here, President Arroyo said she will meet soon with her economic managers to reassess the country’s economic position vis-a-vis the terrorist attack in the US. She expressed confidence that there will be no need to reduce the government’s growth targets.


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