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War War is Stupid
Yes. War is stupid. Regardless of the justifications and alibi. War is stupid.To the advocates of new "All out war" in Muslim Mindanao, other war mongers, may I advice that you try living in conflict...
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Free Trade 43: On PH-Germany or PH-EU FTA
Tomorrow, I will attend this forum co-organized by the Friedricy Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF). Although free trade between the EU and the Philippines is not mentioned in the theme, I think it...
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MeTA 19: National Forum 2015, Empowerment of Patients
The annual national forum of the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Philippines will be held in the next two days. I will attend it, but will miss the opening programs in the morning of Day 1 as I...
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ASEAN Voices 3: Gaming and Casino Tourism in Asia
* This is my article for ASEAN Voices, a new Jakarta-based magazine, February 2015 issue.----------Tourism is a major economic player and job creator in many developing countries including in Southeast...
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Business 360 21: Cheap Oil and Nepal
* This is my article for the monthly magazine published in Kathmandu, Nepal, January 2015 issue.----------Cheap oil: an opportunity to deregulate and demonopolize the oil industry The continued...
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Assessing the Performance of an Administration
If one has to assess the performance or non-performance of a government or administration, what is the better parameter, how much it has done, subsidized, regulated, etc. or how little it has done or...
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MILF, Fallen 44 and Napenas, Part 5
I am reposting these three short but erudite essays by a friend, Raffy Aquino, in his fb wall.Meanwhile, my unsolicited advice to the following:PNP Director Getulio Napenas -- you apologize to the...
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AEC 3: PCCI Muntinlupa Forum on ASEAN Integration
As December 31, 2015 comes closer, the implementation date of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), more public discussions are being held about the regional integration. Among such discussions was the...
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Business 360 22: Nepal's Tourism Potential
* This is my article for Business 360 magazine published in Kathmandu, Nepal, February 2015 issue.------Nepal's Tourism PotentialNepal is a beautiful and unique country with lots of interesting and...
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The CPP, China, Joma and Dick Malay
Reposting a brief memoire by a former young Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) official in the early 70s, Ricardo "Dick" Malay, below.When I was still among the leftist student activists in UP...
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Agri Econ 16: Seeds for Mankind
When I attended the "International Training Seminar on Sustainable Agriculture in an Environmental Perspective" in Sweden in 2003 (7 weeks, sponsored by SIDA), we have several reading materials. Among...
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Inequality 22: Ten Men Eating Equally but Paying Unequally
Should governments tax the rich more?This photo I got from the web. High inequality, right? This can mean many things, like:1. The poor living on the left have jobs, direct or indirect, from the people...
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Agri Econ 17: Why NFA Marketing Function Should be Removed
Last Tuesday, February 24, a friend and National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Renan B. Dalisay posted in his fb wall with photos,Early morning market visit today here in Zamboanga City. Mura ng...
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Climate Tricks 38: Threats and Witch Hunt of Skeptical Scientists
The anthropogenic or "man-made" warming/climate change camp is getting desperate, some or many of them are turning to outright threats and witch hunting. See these news reports below.From truthout.org,...
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Tobacco Tax 10: More Questions on Sin Tax Money
A physician friend, Dr. Tony Leachon, posted this PhilStar report last year.And peopled asked again, "where is the money?" or "how was it spent?" From the law, Sin Tax Reform Act of 2012 (RA 10351),...
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Climate Tricks 39: Many Attacks on Dr. Willie Soon, He Replied
I just realized that there are at least 18 articles and reports attacking the famous Dr. Willie Soon, a Malaysian-American scientist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in late...
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Free Trade 44: The Gravity Model
An old theory in international trade (and migration) but which I heard and read only last month, is the gravity model. This is on top of the classical David Ricardo theory of "comparative advantage"...
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War, War is Stupid, Part 2
Many if not all, people who call for a new big war in Mindanao are also the most coward to go to a real war. Or most stingy to contribute money and resources for the direct cost of war, and indirect...
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Business 360 24: Electricity and Development
* This is my article for the March 2015 issue of Business 360, a monthly magazine published in Kathmandu, Nepal.----------Electricity and DevelopmentWhen I was in Nepal for one week in January...
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Inequality 23: On Poverty, Agriculture and Motorcycles
Last month, I attended the UPSE-Ayala Corporation Lecture on the Philippine Economic Performance, with NEDA Director General and my former PDE teacher, Dr. Arsenio Balisacan as main speaker. The event...
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