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Thailand Politics and the Monarchy, Part 3
A friend, Dr. Amado "Bong" Mendoza, Prof. of UP Political Science, wrote a brief but good analysis of the Thai political crisis. He gave me permission to post it here; photo from his fb wall. My...
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Bong Mendoza's Political Poetry
Below are three of the various short poems and septons by a friend, Dr. Amado “Bong” Mendoza of the UP Political Science Department. Posted yesterday and today, reposting them here with his permission....
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Middle Earth, the Middle Class and Growth
I like the play of words here: hobbit and habit, Middle Earth and middle class, JRR Tolkien and equilibrium theorists. Article written by my former prof. at UPSE, a math econ, institutional econ, econ...
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Plane Delays and NAIA Bureaucracy
* This is my article yesterday in thelobbyist.biz.-----------A fried posted last January 27 one of his travel nightmares when he came home from Norway.Another shameful episode at the Ninoy Aquino...
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Economic Liberalization via Charter Change, the FEF Statement
Investments and job creation is not a crime that must be restricted by governments. The Philippine Constitution, ratified in 1987 or 27 years ago, is nice except that it explicitly limits or bars...
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Philippine Navy and Sangley Point
A friend in facebook, Dr. Aileen Baviera, an academic in UP and researcher on foreign policy and military affairs, rode a Philippine Navy chopper yesterday and took photos, posted in facebook. I have...
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UHC 22: Shortage of Doctors in the Philippines
A friend, Dr. Tony Leachon of UP College of Medicine, also practicing at Manila Doctors Hospital, posted this article in his fb wall last week, and it attracted lots of healthy and useful comments from...
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MeTA 16: Day 1 of Conference 2014
The 2014 Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Philippines forum 2014 started today, here at the Bayanihan Center of Unilab Complex, Pasig City, Metro Manila. Attendance is big, 100+ people attending....
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Free Trade 32: Hong Kong's Unilateral Trade Liberalization and John...
Nice article about Hong Kong below, written by a friend, Larry Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in the US. Slightly shortened, see the original article here. The...
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Energy Econ :13: Universal Charges and Thin Power Reserves
A friend posted today in his fb wall,DOE Ssec. Petilla reportedly told the supreme court that the implementation of the Epira law is a learning process. Fine, if that is how this govt wants it....
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Free Trade 33: ASEAN Economic Community 2016
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will materialize by December 31, 2015. Of course there are no business transactions on a new year, so AEC will start on January 1, 2016 or nearly two years from now....
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Big Infrastructure Projects, Metro Manila, 2014-2016
Some big infrastructure projects in Metro Manila will start tomorrow, especially the extension of the skyway that will connect the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) to North Luzon Expressway (NLEX). Our...
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Globalization, Mobility and Inequality
Yesterday, I gave a talk at 4th year high school students, Honors Class, of La Salle Green Hills (LSGH). Thanks to former UPSE batchmate Malou Roa for inviting me, her son, Mike Roa, is the Class...
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Climate Tricks 26: CO2, Pollution and Climate Junkets
A friend working at the House of Representatives posted yesterday photos of a forum on climate change, sponsored by the House Committee on Ecology, Senate Committee on Environment, British Embassy...
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UHC 23: Orthopedic Hospital Corporatization, Not Privatization
There have been a number of political noise about the corporatization and modernization of the Philippine Orthopedic Center (POC). Many groups are opposing its “privatization” with lots of street...
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Energy Econ 14: Power Rate Hike, Who Colluded?
In a fb group, Government and Taxes, Freedom andResponsibility, I had a debate with Troy ZD last February 5 this year. He posted this news report from the Inquirer,...
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Free Trade 34: ASEAN's Bilateral and Regional FTAs
There are a number of good trade data on Asia-Pacific free trade agreements (FTAs), from an Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Discussion Paper ERIA-DP-2013-02, “Taking...
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Drug Price Control 38: Presentation at USC, Cebu, March 2010
* Note: This is an expanded version compared to the one I originally posted last Thursday. The discussion on game theory below is explained as many readers may not be familiar with this applied math...
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CSOs and State 18: Civil Society as Lobbyists for More Government? Cigarette...
There are moves again to have a new law, mandating and forcing tobacco manufacturers to put warning signs in their cigarette packs like "Smoking Kills".While I believe that tobacco use is harmful for...
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2nd ICCC in New York, March 2009
On March 6, 2009, my plane landed in New Jersey airport (route was Manila-Narita-Detroit-NJ, Delta Air). I saw small mounds of snow on the tarmac, other parts of NJ and New York. Days before that,...
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