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Free Trade 45: Protectionism in Services, Peering at the ASEAN
Southeast Asian governments and their neighbors are generally liberal in trade in goods. But in trade in services, many of them remain protectionist. Paper presented in 2013, From "Services Trade on...
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PNoy Resignation Call -- Lousy Movement
Politics and government is about power. Lust for power. That is why governments must shrink because the people who are most attracted to politics and government are most likely the ego-trippers,...
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War, War is Stupid, Part 3
A friend, Froi Vincenton of https://vincenton.wordpress.com/ commented to my earlier points in Part 2 of this subject. He wrote,Some people didn't ask for war. Just look at the Christians and Yazidis...
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Energy 34: Feed in Tariff Implementation in the Philippines
* This is my guest article in No Tricks Zone yesterday.----------The Philippines enacted the Renewable Energy (RE) Act of 2008 (Republic Act 9513) that contains various subsidies to renewables like...
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Agri Econ 18: Israel's Modern, High Tech Farming
Two weeks ago, I attended an agricultre seminar given by the Israel embassy here in Manila, to interested Filipino farmers and farm owners/managers. A friend and co-parent at TSAA, Noel Sandicon...
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Economic Growth and Whiners, Ipagbawal ang GDP Growth!
A friend posted today that GDP growth of 6 percent on average,there is tremendous amount of shallowness to the economic growth of recent years. A simplistic, quantitative overview of the Philippines'...
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AEC 4: Malaysia's MITI Presentation
Two days ago, South East Asia Network for Development (SEANET) and the ASEAN People's Forum (APF) held a forum about the ASEAN Economic Community in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. SEANET is a new regional...
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China -ASEAN 3: Trade and Investment Relations
During the Philippine Economic Society (PES) 52nd conference last November 14, 2014, held at Intercon Hotel in Makati City, among the panel sessions was on "Economic Trade Integration."One paper was...
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China Watch 20: Fortify PH Garrison?
A friend, Dr. Bong Mendoza of the UP Political Science Department, posted yesterday in fb and tagged me with this note,I agree with Sen. Sonny Trillanes that we should fortify our garrisons on the...
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Foreign Aid 16: ADB on OFW Remittances
A news report last Wednesday, March 18, 2015. I think the ADB President, Takehiko Nakao, is wrong here. OFW remittances are private funds, 100% of it, not PH government or ADB fund. Why would he...
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AEC 5: Aviation, Telecom, Mobile Money and Retail in the ASEAN
Last week, March 17, South East Asia Network for Development (SEANET) and the ASEAN People's Forum (APF) co-sponsored a forum about the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in Kuala Lumpur. One of the two...
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Tax Cut 22: ASEAN Taxation and Philippine Fiscal Incentives
As the Philippine government becomes more fiscally irresponsible and tax-hungry as it cannot raise existing taxes easily without getting new political backlash, it turns its eyes on certain tax...
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Penalizing Pedestrians, Other LGU Prohibitions
When government, local or national, issues a prohibition, normally there are clear signs. Thus, No Parking, No Left Turn, No U-Turn, One way, and so on. Thus, prohibitions against pedestrian crossing...
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Earth Hour 6: The WWF can Change Climate Change?
To celebrate darkness even for one hour is lousy. More, stable electricity at lower price gave us modern life, including the convenience of the web, blogger, facebook and youtube. The World Wildlife...
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Ipagbawal ang GDP Growth, Part 2
A friend, Prof. Bong Mendoza, posted this news report last January 30, 2015.The reporters, Rina Chandran and Sharon Chen, were at the Ayala-UPSE forum at Intercon Hotel in Makati last January. I was...
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Free Trade 46: Debate on TPPA and Liberalization in Malaysia
Last Saturday, the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) and the South East Asia Network for Development (SEANET) co-sponsored a debate in Kuala Lumpur.I am reposting the Event Report:...
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LTO Bureaucracy 5: No Plate Available
Among the most inefficient and corruption-prone agencies and bureaucracies in the PH government is the Land Transportation Office (LTO) under the Department of Transportation and Communications...
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Ipagbawal ang GDP Growth, Part 3
Here is the latest macro data from The Economist magazine, April 4th 2015 issue. I omitted the data on industrial production growth and consumer prices (inflation rates), as well as other economies in...
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UHC 27: Paranoia on Healthcare Corporatization and Privatization
On Tuesday, I will attend this event organized by IBON, a left-leaning, anti-globalization, anti-market or competitive capitalism think tank in Manila. Their book title says it clearly -- that...
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AEC 6: The ACSC/ASEAN People's Forum (APF) 2015
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) will hold its annual and 26th Summit this coming April 24-27, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Presidents and Prime Ministers of the 10-member...
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