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Fat Free Econ 39: P57,000 Public Debt Per Filipino
* This is my article last Saturday in interaksyon.com--------The outstanding debt of the Philippine government has breached the P5 trillion mark sometime in March 2012. By the end of last year, the...
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EMHN 7: Free Trade Improves Public Health
Our regional and global health alliance, the Emerging Markets Health Network (EMHN), has republished a paper that was released February 2012 by the Free Market Foundation (FMF) of South Africa. MG...
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Business 360 4: Brownouts and Power Deregulation
* This is my article for Business 360, published in Kathmandu, Nepal, early this month.-----------Addressing power shedding and rationingPower outages of 12 hours a day or more is one formula for slow...
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Population Control 17: China's Depopulation and RH Law
* This is my second guest post in antipinoy.com, posted the other day.-----------China’s depopulation has begun. While it’s true that they still have a big number of younger workers, they also have a...
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Socialized Healthcare 12: Nurses, Doctors and Other Resources
Last January 24, 2013, I attended a lecture by Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, a former DOH Secretary and now a health consultant for many agencies, heads a health NGO and is back to teaching at the UP College...
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EMHN 8: Brand Protection and Safe Medicines
Our international health network has produced another good paper, Fake medicines in Asia The importance of brands to medicine quality. Authored by a good friend Philip Stevens, this six pages long...
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Mining 7: Mining Taxation and Government
* This is my 3rd guest post in antipinoy.com.----------The large-scale mining sector is probably the most taxed sector in the country. National taxes and fees include corporate income tax, tax on...
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Election Watch 4: Senatoriables on Healthcare
Last Monday, March 04, I attended the “2013 Senatorial Elections: A Universal Health Care Forum” held at Traders Hotel, Manila. The event was jointly sponsored by the UHC Study Group, Pharmaceutical...
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Transport Econ 8: Removing MRT and LRT Fare Subsidy
The MRT line from North Avenue in QC to Taft Avenue in Pasay is the most congested among the three urban train systems in Metro Manila. At rush hours, it is relatively common that passengers in midway...
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Free Trade 28: Exports and Prosperity
* This is my article yesterday in thelobbyist.biz-----------An economy that exports more is creating more local jobs, directly and indirectly. Even a highly import-dependent sector like electronics is...
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Business 360 5: Reducing Construction and Electricity Bureaucracies
* This is the article I sent to B360 for their March 2013 issue, published in Kathmandu, Nepal.--------------Reducing various business bureaucracies is one important policy by any government, local or...
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Fat-Free Econ 40: IMF Irrelevance
* This is my article today in interaksyon.com.-------In a forum last Wednesday at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) director for Asia and...
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Mining 8: Rio Tuba Mining in South Palawan
I am here in Puerto Princesa City, the provincial capital of Palawan province. I joined a small group of people brought to Rio Tuba Nickel Mining Corporation (RTNMC) by Jose Bayani "JB" Baylon last...
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EFN Asia 16: Participation in Jeju Forum for Peace 2013
The Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia will be participating in the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity 2013 Conference this coming May 29-31, 2013, to be held at Haevichi Hotel and Resort Jeju, S....
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Socialized Healthcare 13: On Inequality and Inclusive Business in HC
Two weeks ago, I attended this forum at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati, sponsored by the AIM-Zuellig Center for Asian Business Transformation, ACCESS Health, ASSIST and Globe Telecom....
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Foreign Aid 15: Shrink the IMF
I forwarded my article in interaksyon, Why the IMF is irrelevant in thePhilippines, to Dr. Josef “Jop” Yap, the President of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) because it was the...
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Socialized Healthcare 14: Health Spending / GDP Ratio
In my blog post the other day, On Inequality and Inclusive Business in HC, I wrote:On government health spending, I think the ADB, WHO, UN, etc. data on PH public health spending is understated and...
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Math, Number Theory and Philippine Media
I have a good friend, a true blue academic scientist currently teaching at UP Diliman. He got his BS Math also from UP Diliman in the 80s, he did not graduate on time though because he was an activist....
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Rule of Law 19: How to Strengthen RoL?
* This is my 4th guest post in antipinoy.com---------This is a puzzle that all administrations in the Philippines have answered or attempted to answer. And it seems that almost all of them have...
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Blood Donation 4: At the Philippine General Hospital
Below are my facebook notes today when I went to the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) to donate blood to a patient who has been at the intensive care unit (ICU) for a month now…------Arrived at the...
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