Tag: 2017 Budget

Senate denies pork barrel insertions in 2017 budget

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Senate leadership denied that there were pork barrel insertions in the 2017 budget. Senate President Aquilino Pimentel made the denial after Senator Panfilo Lacson stated that the 2017 budget included hundreds of millions of pesos set aside for projects of senators. Pimentel insisted that senators identifying projects before the approval of the national budget was not against the Constitution. Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations Rep. Karlo […]

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Proposed 2017 budget higher by 11.6%, says DBM

MANILA, July 18 – Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno in his first sit-down press conference today told the media the department’s preparations for the 2017 budget under President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s administration. Secretary Diokno, a two-time budget secretary, said that the budgets for 2017 until 2022 will support the president’s promise to improve the country’s infrastructure, invest in human resources, modernize agriculture and rural development, and develop lagging regions. For Fiscal […]

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DBM says 2017 budget to strengthen support for cities

MANILA, April 27 – The Department of Budget and Management announced that a total of P16.7 billion will be allocated in the 2017 national budget to implement Bottom-up Budgeting (BuB) and the Konkreto at Ayos na Lansangan ang Daan Tungo sa Pangkalahatang Kaunlaran (KALSADA) Program for cities nationwide. 2017 will be the 1st year for KALSADA and the 5th year for BuB for cities. Of the P16.7 billion, P13.5 billion will be for KALSADA for […]

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