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Tag: inflation

  • Categories Commentary

    Tougher times ahead

    By Tita c. Valderama  |  Jan 02, 2023 11:30 AM

    What can ordinary Filipinos do to manage the effects of inflation? We have to further tighten our belts and avoid overspending.

    2023, department of agriculture, inflation

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FAKE Sandro Marcos quote on use of onions still circulating online

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 29, 2022 3:56 PM

    Multiple Facebook (FB) pages continue to share a quote card already denounced as fake, where Ilocos Norte 1st District Rep. Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos asked people to use a more […]

    inflation, onion, Sandro Marcos

  • What the F Podcast EP 16: Luho?! Savings?! In this economy?!: Usapang inflation ng mga bagets
    Categories Editor's Pick Podcast

    Luho?! Savings?! In this economy?!: Usapang inflation ng mga bagets

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 25, 2022 6:45 AM

    Dahil sa nakagugulantang na presyo ng mga bilihin dala ng pag-arangkada ng inflation sa bansa, pa’no nga ba nag-a-adjust ang millennials at Gen Zs? Pakinggan ang kwentuhan ng VERA Files reporters sa Episode 16 ng What The F?! Podcast.

    #WhatTheF?! podcast, inflation, Philippines

  • Trixie Cruz-Angeles
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ng Press Secretary na ang inflation ay ‘hindi dahil sa anumang mga lokal na kadahilanan’ NAKALILIGAW

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 04, 2022 11:49 AM

    Sinabi ni Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles na ang dahilan ng pagtaas ng inflation sa bansa ay ang peso-dollar exchange rate na bumagsak sa pinakamababang halaga, at “hindi dahil sa anumang lokal kadahilanan.” Ito ay nakaliligaw.

    dollar, economy, exchange rate, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., inflation, inflation rate, Pandemic, peso, price, trixie cruz angeles

  • Trixie Cruz-Angeles
    Categories FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Press Secretary misleads with statement that inflation is ‘not due to any local factors’

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 04, 2022 11:49 AM

    Sonny Africa, executive director of IBON Foundation, told VERA Files Fact Check in an email that while rising global prices of food and the depreciation of the peso, driven by interest rate hikes in the United States, are indeed immediate inflation factors, the government has “direct control over factors like the excise and value added taxes it puts on goods and services consumed or, like fuel, used to produce other goods and services.”

    dollar, economy, exchange rate, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., inflation, inflation rate, Pandemic, peso, price, trixie cruz angeles

  • PH INFLATION (2019).png
    Categories News

    Expert: PH inflation likely to remain below 2 percent for the remainder of 2019

    By Jil Danielle Caro  |  Sep 05, 2019 12:41 PM

    Inflation is expected to remain below 2 percent the rest of the year as more imported rice enter the market, slashing down the prices of the staple food, said Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) Senior Research Fellow Roehlano Briones.

    inflation

  • Nov 6 FBF - Diokno MISLEADING.png
    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Online post on Diokno’s list of ’causes of inflation’ MISLEADING

    By VERA FILES  |  Nov 06, 2018 8:43 PM

    A netizen’s month-old online post currently circulating on social media which claims that Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno attributed recent inflation rates to rice hoarding, price hikes on oil and vegetables and “economic sabotage” by oligarchs is misleading.

    Benjamin Diokno, inflation

  • Duterte Davao economic growth.png
    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte, DOF differ on main driver of inflation

    By VERA FILES  |  Oct 22, 2018 11:58 AM

    President Rodrigo Duterte blames the nine-year-high inflation rate on rising oil prices. Yet his finance department tells a different story.

    Antonio Lambino II, Duterte, inflation

  • Communications Secretary Martin Andanar, head of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information, says media literacy is essential in fighting fake news.jpg
    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Andanar falsely downplays inflation figures, accuses media of ‘painting negative picture

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 17, 2018 4:38 PM

    Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar, downplaying the recent inflation figures, mishmashes his data and then blames the media.

    andanar, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, inflation

  • Duterte with Panelo. Malacanang photo by King Rodriguez.jpg
    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Panelo mixes up inflation figures

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 09, 2018 9:35 PM

    He also partly blamed the media.

    inflation, Panelo

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