Is Philippine economy on the rise?

Hello raymond, yeah, you could say that because of the situation of the country and it's corruption. such is realy discouraging businessman to go one business or expand it. what's worse is corrupt officials like cops and traffic enforces are milking them out and then some are are downsizing causing another add to the unemployed people

debate laws...where law makers are the first law breakers eh

Hello Jaiho, I hope you're doing fine there. yeah, i agree and sadly to say, there hasn't been good changes lately or for a while. yeah, i've seen some promotion about municipalities competing with each other to become the best municipality. well, it's a good development, not like before.i don't even know the purpose of the senate there except to debate and make laws.

and try to remember that Japan after the world war 2, they are poorer than a rat, but few years passed, they regain strength.... for an extremely few years only.... it's not the reason when we say Philippines is hard to recover because of the bombardment of past debts of the previous series of administrations.... but it's about Honesty, Honor, Discipline, Determination, Patience... name it more... Japan is programed to be independent... while Philippines is not, but by words only they called Independent but still dependent to America and to all nations....

First and foremost, thank you for the best response mark. Secondly, I think nobody in the world is really satisfied of what they have. We always have that thought of "life is greener on the other side." Our wants and needs are so insatiable that we always try to compare our lives with other peoples lives and nobody could really say that they're 'comfortable'. There will always be something better that we'd like to achieve. Say for example, I have a friend who lived in our capital city. He was working a good job then after a couple of months, he says that the job and the company wasn't really good. Then he transferred to another company, after several months he's saying the same thing. After several companies, he would say that same complaints: the company is not good, the policies are not right, the management are just people who are a$$holes. Eventually, he got the chance to work in another country. Different environment, everything was great. After several months, he still complained of the same thing. Now, if one was in a situation were he wasn't employed, I'd tell you that nothing in the world would be better than to be employed and have money. The guy would even accept a mediocre job just to satisfy the need of having a source of fund. To make the long story short, it depends really on who's talking and who's living the life. I for one would think that life is tougher these days as compared to years before. But should your grandparents would talk, they'd think that life was very much easier when they were younger. Still, if your great-great grandparents would have the chance to speak, they'd say life was better when they too were young. I guess everything was indeed better when all of us were younger, but that's just human nature, we cannot accept what we have and look at it in the purest way, we always see something 'bad' in our situation. Is it our fault? NO it's not, it's human nature. As for people leaving the country, ever since time a memorial people have been migrating to other countries. It's nothing new. That would never stop, neither would progress stop people from leaving. Several years ago, things were still young in our country - people have left. Now, there are far more companies, still people have left. It's all about our insatiable desire.

Hello Laydee, That depends really on the situation of every person. to those who seemed uneducated they really see things that are going bad lately or more like they didn't wanna talked about how bad is going in their lives. as for the middle class i think tightening their belts is what caused them to say it's not going too well. We could have done better to be honest. otherwise, the best of us won't be leaving this country and be of service to foreigners. but coming from you're view at least there is hope and chance that our country will some day step up and grow. i hope in a positive way and not too late.

Hello babyanna, Well, it all comes down to the discipline. if people are not into obeying laws, then such perfect law is nothing more than just a waste. i agree, greedy comes a long when a man doesn't want to let go of that power. unfortunately, for mantis, he's right but

Hi,Letran! Well,it's not that I don't believe in self-discipline.But most of the time,we need something to restrain us.Like the laws in Singapore,they are severe and thus proven to be effective.But yeah,greed does come along when he is not willing to let go,but unfortunately,yeah,mantis is right.Haha.

just what i said before, that if you are now in the position where the army are yours, the power are yours, the money are yours, the command are yours, won't you grab that opportunity to have something to yourself because this is only once in a lifetime? for example: the people of the Philippines cannot blame me because i already paid them all for voting me during elections....

Hello louievill, Actually, there was a moment where the economy back then was better because i get to have different kind of jobs with benefits added. but as time goes by the procedure in getting more into the application after i was laid it become very much harder than before. yeah, the poor doesn't understand that we become poor because the government needs to a tend to those who are in the poor living...not having enough funds, causing more drain.

I would still say we have plateaued but leaning more towards the bad, this is a precarious situation especially if we and government mishandle ourselves, let's all give it a little push towards the up..one... two...

Hello mantis, am not if beyond 43=1$ is higher change or lower. actually the 50php = 1$ was a lot more high to me. i should have earned a lot more then.

The dollar exchange rate is more of a reflection of our big brother's financial state and not necessarily a reflection of our own stability, in fact a weakened green buck might not be good for us with all those OFWs we have earning in dollars. How about online earnings? are they not in dollars too?(just kidding)

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Hello Jeane, I agree with you, they have different opinions base on their experiences. more expenses are coming up rising while salary is almost the same. i kept telling my brother about mylot but they both just Don't LISTEN. before he was proud of his salary but now even her wife complains about how low it is.

Hello Agent, I don't know much about the stock market, i want to learn there as well. just like my brother who also wants to learn but it seemed complicated to us because we don't know much about the buying power of the people because of the economic situation on other places accross the world. solving problems like that is really gonna take time

I'm really not an expert as I am still trying to learn my way in investing in stocks too. It is quite complicated at first but once you get the hang of it, it'll be great. I've been trying to read a lot of books and materials pertaining to stocks. In my opinion, if more and more people in the Philippines learns how to invest money, our economy will surely grow. Money should be circulated for the economy to be healthy and investing in stocks is a good instrument to do so.