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Philippines in Fiscal Crisis. ... Economists suggested ways and means on preventing
the Philippines in getting into the fiscal crisis. ...
... rather than a government fiscal crisis”, but that ... for the greatest financial crisis
and economic ... South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong ...
... helped shape the development path the Philippines has taken. ... in the banking sector
and fiscal spending to ... The crisis also had political implications because of ...
... 14 31 – 64 29 Philippines 9 – 13 8 ... Financial Crises Dimensions of crisis resolution:
Unilateral ... Role Macroeconomic imbalances • Fiscal policy discipline ...
... before a single needle on thy patient. Is the Philippines in the midst of
a fiscal crisis? Yes, and that is the singular conclusion ...
Submitted by rodel on February 21, 2007
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I believe that the Philippines is in a crisis but it is not yet a fiscal crisis. By definition, fiscal crisis is a condition in which government can no longer manage its debts due to a huge budget deficit, an imbalance between revenues and expenditures. The budget deficit reached P199.9 billion in 2003. It stood at P80.1 billion as of June and was forecast to hit about P200 billion this year. However, the government can still pay for this huge amount and has in fact allocated almost a third of the proposed budget for 2005 for interests’ payments of 270 billion pesos (Budget Secretary Emilia Boncodin, July 8, 2004). Thus, since we are still able to pay our debt we are not yet in a fiscal crisis.
Undeniably, the Philippines is beset by a drop in average incomes, high inflation, high unemployment and currency depreciation, evidences of a fiscal crisis. As of April 2004, the unemployment rate in the country stood at 13.7 % and the underemployment rate at 18.5%, the highest so far in the region. (http://www.inq7.net/brk/2004/jun/30/brkpol_17-1.htm). This is as simple as saying that we are having a crisis.
Economists suggested ways and means on preventing the Philippines in getting into the fiscal crisis. The 11 UP economists proposed new tax and austerity measures that will help the government save for the rainy days. However, I find their data insufficient. First of all, they should have elaborated that the tax collection system in the Philippines is very poor. Customs collections decline from 5.6% of GDP in the mid-1990s to 2.8% in 2002. (Afterthoughts: UP economic report: overdue, selective, not daring enough. Aug 31, 2004. By Bello, et al). Tax Elasticity or the response of tax collection to increases in income has gone down from 1.62% in 1996 to 0.37% in 2000. Which means that in 1996, a one percent increase in income led to a 1.62 percent increase in tax collections whereas in 2002, a 1% increase in income led to only a 0.37% increase in tax...
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