
Philippines Unemployment Drops to 5.3% as Retail and Farming Add Jobs
Lower labor force entries and 227,000 new wholesale and retail jobs helped reduce the Philippine jobless total to 2.77 million in August.
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Lower labor force entries and 227,000 new wholesale and retail jobs helped reduce the Philippine jobless total to 2.77 million in August.

Makati leads urban household earnings at 796,990 pesos a year while five Mindanao provinces post the country’s lowest purchasing power.

Philippine retail sales soared 6.3 per cent in the last quarter of 2015 – more than three times faster than the same period a year earlier. According to data from the Philippine Statistics Authority, the retail trade growth was more than three times the rate…
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