Rainforests and the Amazon: economic development and the environment
The news of the week for environment watchers is the extensive Amazon fires. Burning forest lands in Brazil flashed across TV and has raised alarmed commentaries about global warming.
An appeal to the UP Board of Regents
This column is an appeal to the Board of Regents (BOR) of the University of the Philippines to reverse a decision by UP president Danny Concepcion regarding a cheating case in the UP School of Economics (UPSE).
Prices of our favorite local fruits have become more expensive
There is a price phenomenon about native fruits in the food basket. Why have our favorite local fruits become much more expensive?
Free Sen. Leila de Lima
I am again writing about the case described by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio as “one of the grossest injustices ever perpetrated in recent memory in full view of the Filipino people and the whole world.”
GDP growth 2019 — factors to consider
A lingering question for the whole year is whether the year’s growth target of around six percent for 2019 is achievable.
Rice tariffication problems and measures to deal with them
I don't see any evidence at this point that lawmakers of the 17th Congress made a big mistake passing this law.
The Chinese invasion
I don’t know what those offshore gaming workers do, but it doesn’t sound like they are an asset for the Philippines. More like liabilities.
Employment and activity in the informal economy
It is in the informal sector where those who cannot find good jobs in the modern sector are absorbed. Here the rules and regulations of work and employment are ignored, or simply do not apply.
Duterte’s veto
The veto shows that Duterte’s populism remains for the moment “bridled”; by economic common sense, that is.
There is hope for the country
The students of the University of the Philippines have recently shown what they are made of. And they have shown up their elders in the university, because they insist that the university live up to its motto “Honor and Excellence,” where honor takes pride of place.
Veto of the SOT: promoting good jobs in the modern sector
President Duterte vetoed the “security of tenure” bill, bravely and for good reasons last week. It made good sense for the President to heed the pleas of the business sector simply by focusing on the country’s labor market situation.
