Ateneo Eagle Watch

In the midst of the dizzying changes in global oil and food prices, what are the appropriate responses that fiscal and monetary policy should adopt to ensure that the Philippine growth story remain intact. The Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development (ACERD) and the Center for Continuing Education (CCE) of the Ateneo de Manila University have invited BSP Gov Eli Remolona to keynote our Eagle Watch for the Second Semester of 2023. Together with our Senior Fellows, Cielito F. Habito and Luis Dumlao, ACERD will provide a context in understanding the factors surrounding the macroeconomy and how you and your firm can strategize. Our forecasts for the rest of the year and 2024 will also be shared and is particularly useful for those doing their planning for next year.
Join us this September 28. This is a face-to-face briefing and seats are filling up fast! Looking forward to seeing you there.

Describing the new (next) normal | Eagle Watch How will the new (next) normal look like? Here are some points to consider: 1.  Revenge demand As consumer confidence returns, spending will increasingly become intense in the first two years of the new normal. “Revenge shopping” or bottled-up demand will be released. This happened after all p...

An economic growth and development agenda for the next administration | Dr. Fernando T. Aldaba Here is an agenda for the next administration to sustain recovery and hasten economic development: 1. Strengthening the health-care system The pandemic highlighted the need for more quality investments in health care to create greater resilience once shocks are experienced. The government needs to ...

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Mr. Eddie Go was an ardent and original supporter of Ateneo Eagle Watch! May the Lord grant eternal rest unto him. OBF!

With deep sadness, we inform the University community of the passing away of Edward S Go (member, Board of Trustees, 1998-2014; GS '53, HS '57, AB '61) on 16 September 2021.

Read the memo from the President: https://go.ateneo.edu/EdwardGo1938-2021

Liberalize fish importation to bring down prices, says Ateneo Professor While groups of local fishermen, traders, and aquaculture players already expressed what they think about the government’s decision to approve the importation of 60,000 metric tons (MT) and how they think this may not necessarily bring down fish prices, Ateneo Professor Karlo Fermin Adriano has so...

Macroeconomic Update, 4th week of August

Watch ACERD Senior Fellow and Dean of JGSOM Luis Dumlao give his prognosis of the DBCC cutting their growth forecasts

BUSINESSWORLD LIVE | AUGUST 19, 2021 BUSINESSWORLD LIVE | AUGUST 19, 2021• PSEi extends rally for fourth day• S&P cuts PH growth outlook for 2021 to 4.3%• Gov’t eyes P240B pandemic response budg...

Macroeconomic update, 2nd week of August

July inflation seen within BSP target - BusinessWorld HEADLINE INFLATION likely eased to a seven-month low in July, and returned to within the central bank’s target range, with analysts noting that improved meat supply and a slower rise in transport costs likely offset higher prices of fuel and other food items.

Slower July inflation seen Inflation likely eased further in July compared to the previous month as food-price easing measures implemented by the government like tariff cuts on pork and rice imports took hold. Eleven of the