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Mining 9: Supreme Court Hearing on RA 7942
This morning, I saw this poster in the facebook wall of one or two friends, about the Mining Act of 1995 (RA 7942). I think this was made by the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, Inc....
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Mining 10: Urban Tailings vs. Mining Tailings
This is a continuation of my earlier article, Rio Tuba Mining in South Palawan last March 17, 2013. Among the most commonly-cited reasons why many people dislike mining in general and large-scale...
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IPR and Medicines 26: Novartis' Glivec and India's IPR Ruling
A very good friend of mine here in Manila has a brother with leukemia. His physician recommended Gleevec or Glivec (generic molecule is "Imatinib") made by Novartis, as the medicine that can help him...
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Anti-Smoke Belching Racket, Part 5
The Anti-Smoke Belching Units (ASBUs) of various city governments in Metro Manila are now among the modern highway robbers and road terrorists.These photos I took last February 14, 2013, afternoon. I...
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IPR and Medicines 27: More on Glivec and India's SC Decision
A friend in our local health coalition, CHAT, commented in my earlier article, Novartis' Glivec and India's IPR Ruling and argued that(A) medicine to be patentable should be NEW. This in essence only...
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Mining 11: Big Projects in the US, UK, Canada and Australia
Among the arguments hurled against large scale mining in the Philippines is that the rich countries are heavily regulating if not closing some of the big mining projects there to protect their...
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Pol. Ideology 38: Branding Via Clans, Not Philosophy
* This is my 5th guest post in antipinoy.com, posted today.------------Late February this year, I posted this short comment in my facebook wall,“I googled "Nancy Binay", nothing significant, nada. So...
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EFN Asia 17: Zubair Malik as President of FPCCI
The Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia facebook page announced today,Zubair Ahmed Malik has been elected unopposed as the president of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry...
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IPR and Medicines 28: Politicizing Innovation, Rewarding Rent-Seeking
Indian government's intellectual property rights (IPR) system for medicines seems hazy. For instance, it did not give full patent protection for medicines before, until India joined the WTO in 2005....
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On the Fitch Ratings Upgrade
* This is my article in thelobbyist.biz last Friday.Fitch Ratings’ upgrade of the Philippine economy from non-investment grade BB+ to investment grade BBB is indeed good news.For starters, there are...
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Fat-Free Econ 41: Cut Income Taxes
* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com. The "movie editor" that I referred here is Manny Castaneda, my co-cast in the late 80s political satire program, "Sic O Clock News" aired in IBC 13...
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Mining 12: Political Risks vs. Natural Risks
Mining, the science and engineering of discovering and extracting valuable minerals for various human needs, is among the high risk investments in the country and elsewhere around the world. Since...
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EMHN 9: Private Sector Role in India UHC
Another bright and sensible paper from one of our international partners, the Emerging Markets Health Network (EMHN). In a new paper published this week, Indian economist and a friend, Debashis...
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Pol. Ideology 39: Thatcherism
The great, cool “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister from 1979-1990, passed away yesterday. RIP, Margaret.Let me start with a few quotes from this great leader. To cure the British disease...
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Health Transparency 13: MeTA International Visit to Manila
Last Wednesday, April 10, 2013, the International MeTA Secretariat (IMS) visited Manila to meet up with Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Philippines Council officers and members, and attend the...
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Business 360 6: Peace and Prosperity in Asia
* This is the article that I sent to B360 in Kathmandu late last month, for their April 2013 issue.---------Peace and Prosperity in AsiaAsia is in a unique position in the world today in both economic...
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PhilHealth Watch 15: Rising Claims for NCDs
Payment for the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC or PhilHealth) is among the four mandatory monthly payments that people in the formal sector must accept. Meaning even if they are not...
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Mining 13: Timeline of Policies
This afternoon, there will be an oral argument and debates at the Supreme Court in Baguio City. Two petitions by Risa Hontiveros, et al challenge the constitutionality (for the second time) of RA 7942...
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PhilHealth 16: Financial Engineering to Subsidize NCDs Treatment
In a presentation during the MeTA Forum last April 10, 2013 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in Makati, Dr. Rizza Herrera and Dr. Liezel Lagrada of PhilHealth showed some 50 slides about the...
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Energy Econ 9: Blowin in the Wind Fooly
The mystique of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources keeps floating, mainly to help 'save the planet". It's a mystique and paranoia at the same time that drives certain energy policies in...
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