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The Handelsblatt Research Institute reports that the German economy is in its "greatest crisis in post-war history" after projecting that the economy will enter its third year of recession in 2025 with a 0.1% contraction, following a 0.3% contraction in both 2023 and 2024.
September 14 – The Philippines overtakes China as the world's top rice importer, according to the report by the United States Department of Agriculture. [267] [268] September 15 – Six Philippine companies are included in the Time Magazine's list of World's Best Companies of 2023. [269]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Economy of the Philippines Metro Manila, the economic center of the Philippines Currency Philippine peso (sign: ₱; code: PHP) Fiscal year Calendar year Trade organizations ADB, AIIB, AFTA, APEC, ASEAN, EAS, G-24, RCEP, WTO and others Country group Developing/Emerging Lower-middle income ...
Martha Sazon, ranked No. 38 on the Fortune Most Powerful Women Asia list this year, joined Mynt as president and CEO in June 2020. GCash’s popularity soared during the pandemic as Filipinos ...
The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022. WHO also said that the real numbers are far higher than the official tally because of unregistered deaths in countries without adequate reporting.
The PSE Financials Index, is the main stock market index of the Philippine Stock Exchange for banks and financial entities.. This index is one of the PSE indices also home to companies listed on the PSE Composite Index, namely Banco de Oro Universal Bank, Bank of the Philippine Islands, and Metrobank.
March 11 – The first Filipino COVID-19 patient death, was reported in the Philippines. [231] The victim was a 67-year-old female who was confined at the Manila Doctors Hospital. [232] October 6 – Health Secretary Francisco Duque III was elected as chairperson for the World Health Organization's Regional Committee for the Western Pacific. [233]
June 17–27 – Typhoon Fengshen, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Frank, is the sixth named storm and the fourth typhoon recognised by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center recognised Fengshen as the seventh tropical depression, the sixth tropical storm, and fifth typhoon of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season .