{"id":24842,"date":"2014-09-04T17:58:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T09:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24842"},"modified":"2014-09-04T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:22:15","slug":"coa-think-tank-fund-unspent-unaccounted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/04\/coa-think-tank-fund-unspent-unaccounted-for\/","title":{"rendered":"COA: think tank fund unspent, unaccounted for"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24661\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/COA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24661\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/COA.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"139\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Questioning the use of P600 million from the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) that was given to a government think tank, the Commission on Audit (COA) said that a huge part of it remained unspent or unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>COA noted on its 2013 annual report that of the total funds granted to the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS), P213 million remained unspent in Landbank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>PIDS, an attached agency of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) is a nonstock, nonprofit state corporation that functions as the government&#8217;s research arm.<\/p>\n<p>It provides studies and research papers that aides the government in the national planning and policy-making.<\/p>\n<p>Created in 1977 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 1201, the agency has a research program called the PIDS Research Agenda, that is updated every five years.<\/p>\n<p>The Research Agenda aims to respond to the country&#8217;s emerging economic and social issues.<\/p>\n<p>COA, however, said that the funds given to the agency did not accelerate spending, which is the primary goal of DAP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The expected amount that should have flowed as stimulus to boost the economy remained in the possessions of these agencies,&#8221; COA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Questioning the use of P600 million from the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) that was given to a government &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1156,7168],"class_list":["post-24842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-coa","tag-pids","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}