- 1. Under promise, over deliver
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- ... claim much credit for what OFWs and BPOs do for our economy. Business Mirror columnist John Mangun, who is also active in the local market, has this view: “Three pieces of information ...
- Created on 19 June 2013
- 2. Swallow pride, seek US help in China row
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- ... The US is not likely to initially show keen interest in something that would revise its strategic policy and entail huge expenses at a time when its economy if not in good shape. ...
- Created on 10 June 2013
- 3. Changing lives with education
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- ... in local and national politics. With the improvement in the local economy of the 70’s, a few sons of better off families who are not identified with Maguindanaon or Iranon royalty went ...
- Created on 04 June 2013
- 4. Where did our growth come from?
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- ... the Philippine Daily Inquirer issue of June 4, 2013) Now it’s official: the Philippines is the fastest-growing economy in Asia. Beating China’s first quarter growth (7.7 percent) by a hair, our 7.8-percent ...
- Created on 04 June 2013
- 5. Second Thoughts about Pope Bergoglio: A Liberation Pope or Just More Blah, Blah?
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- ... golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal. The ...
- Created on 30 May 2013
- 6. Exciting elections
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- ... with security, the economy, and good governance. Sixth, security. Alas, I can’t really say that there has been much progress on security since there were bombings a couple of days ago, ...
- Created on 10 May 2013
- 7. Credit upgrade: OFW blood, sweat, tears
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- ... infrastructure including the price, sufficiency and reliability of power supply, policy consistency, and political stability. In addition, the economy has to be open to foreign capital. Yet, there are ...
- Created on 09 May 2013
- 8. Tampakan and responsible mining
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- ... interests against each other. These are the environment and the economy, job creation and the preservation of local culture and livelihoods, local autonomy and national governance. And the Philippines’ ...
- Created on 23 April 2013
- 9. Let’s Re-Elect Ramon “Jun” Magsaysay as Senator
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- ... Agriculture. Jobs and Opportunities. In Jun Magsaysay’s view “agriculture is the lynchpin of our economy because about 65 percent of our population depends on farming. A hundred percent depend on ...
- Created on 23 April 2013
- 10. Is the US Asian pivot for real?
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- ... Rushford noted how our economy is booming… “Construction cranes dot Manila’s skyline. The areas just north of Manila that once housed major US military bases at Clark Field and Subic ...
- Created on 03 April 2013
- 11. Will Development Goals Ever Be Enough?
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- Governments must accept that the root causes of poverty, inequality and climate change will never be addressed without substantial reforms to the global economy. In the meanwhile, the post-2015 development ...
- Created on 27 March 2013
- 12. Speech of President Aquino at the 45th anniversary of Jabidah Massacre, March 18, 2013
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- ... situation there was complex, while our economy was one of the strongest in our region, and our military battle-ready, locally and even overseas. Even then—and until today—it had been written in our Constitution: ...
- Created on 19 March 2013
- 13. The State of Our Democracy and its Prospects
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- ... the government and the economy, enriched his family and cronies, reversed our economic development, corrupted politics and society, and politicized the military as his partner in power. Our democratization ...
- Created on 19 March 2013
- 14. Jobs-skills mismatch
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- ... at present due to the decrease in demand for nurses. Can we not have a more accurate projection of the kind of jobs that may be open four or five years from now? This saves the economy the additional expense ...
- Created on 19 March 2013
- 15. ARMM assures welfare of Sabah evacuees
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- ... said. Hataman said that the impact on the economy of the crisis in Sabah has spread from Tawi-Tawi to other provinces in the autonomous region. “Merchants in Tawi-Tawi ...
- Created on 13 March 2013
- 16. The path through Sabah
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- ... Nations was motivated in part by the need to simmer down territorial conflicts before they erupted into economy-damaging wars, potentially dragging other regional countries and global powers into the maw—which ...
- Created on 06 March 2013
- 17. 9/11 Reconsidered in the Light of U.S. Drone Policy
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- ... Bin Laden wrote: “You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury.” What I’m saying here is that 9/11 ...
- Created on 06 March 2013
- 18. Elusive momentum
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- ... Inquirer) Our economy’s growth rate may have stepped up to 6.6 percent from 3.9 percent in 2011, but that’s still not quite growing twice as fast—the declared goal of last year’s “Arangkada” forum of ...
- Created on 05 March 2013
- 19. Our ‘jobless growth’
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- ... (nor widely) linked with our total economy. And it is "hollow" because it produced little or no jobs which meant many did not benefit from the growth. Why this is happening has been explained ...
- Created on 19 February 2013
- 20. Pushing cities for rural development?
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- ... a reality. And for the regional cities that are critical growth poles to pull up their surrounding rural economies, city planning cannot be done in isolation, as the vibrancy of the city economy hinges ...
- Created on 19 February 2013