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Business 360 25: Reducing Construction and Electricity Permits
* This is my article for the monthly magazine published in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 2015 issue.-----------Simplifying Construction and Electricity PermitsIn March 2013 issue of Business 360, this column...
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AEC 7: AAA Law's Forum on Post-2015 ASEAN Integration
Last night, April 08, I attended a presentation by Luis T. Cruz, DFA Assistant Secretary for ASEAN Affairs, held at Shangrila Hotel Makati. He was one of two speakers. The next speaker after him was...
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LTO Bureaucracy 6: On the No Plate No Travel Prohibition
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano posted today this poster in his fb page with this note,Sen. Alan Cayetano is asking for a moratorium/suspension of the No Registration, No Travel policy of the LTO.Ayusin muna...
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UHC 28: Health Pessimism Despite Improving Public Health
It is common for many if not all left-leaning groups and NGOs to be pessimist and negative-looking at almost any social and economic indicators of any country or the world in general. This is because...
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Climate Tricks 38: Arrest Climate Change Deniers
Another emotional and authoritarian call from the alarmist groups. This is from gawlers.com, March 28, 2015. The alarmists are getting more emotional, more desperate, more intolerant.On the other...
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OFW Death, PH Embassy in Riyadh and Al Rajhi Bank
Last May 07, 2014 or almost one year ago, my sister in law, Gemma B. Oplas, a nurse at King Fahad Medical City (KFMC) in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), died of MERS CoV. I wrote it here,Two...
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Singapore, LKY and the PH Archipelago
The quick development and modernization of Singapore (expelled from Malaysia August 1965) into an industrialized economy in just about two decades is indeed phenomenal. The role of former PM Lee Kuan...
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AEC 8: Trade, Competition and Innovation in the ASEAN
November last year, I attended the Philippine Economic Society (PES) annual conference. Several panel discussions to choose in the afternoon sessions. I think I missed this STRIDE panel because I...
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Energy 35: Coal Power Plant in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental
The first coal power plant in Negros island (composed of two provinces, Negros Occidental and Oriental),150 MW and costing P15.5 B, has been proposed and construction is projected to start in the 4th...
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ASEAN Politics 4: Institutions and Per Capita Wealth in the Region
During the Philippine Economic Society (PES) Conference last November 2014, among the papers presented was this one.The paper wanted to ask, why are some countries richer than the others?Its Objective...
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LTO Bureaucracy 7: Cost of Annual Car Registration
This morning, I registered my car to the Land Transportation Office (LTO) for the mandatory annual vehicle registrations. This is the 3rd straight year I see this in my registration certificate --...
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Inequality 24: Inheritance, Poverty and Envy
A friend posted this meme from "US Uncut" in my fb wall and asked for my comments. For me, here are some formula to be poor, 100% assurance.A. Self-inflicted:1. Do not work. Or work 1 hour then...
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Blog Stats this Month
Recently, this blog has attracted somehow high page views. From an average of about 370 pageviews a day from January to March 2015, from April 6 until today, the blog has been getting something like...
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AEC 9: SEANET Forum on Economic Liberalization, Kuala Lumpur, April 23
Next week, April 23, SEANET, IDEAS and APF/ACSC will jointly sponsor this forum in Kuala Lumpur. I will be there to attend and hear this forum as well as other panel discussions of APF/ACSC.If I am...
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Competition Policy 5: Government as Creator of Monopolies and Oligopolies
A Philippine Competition Law is coming soon, around July this year, according to Sen. Bam Aquino in a forum that I attended yesterday in Makati. The main speaker was a friend and former teacher in...
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AEC 10: Indigenous Rights, Labor and Human Rights in the ASEAN
Tomorrow, the ASEAN People's Forum (APF) will start in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is a gathering of largely anti-liberalization, anti-privatization and deregulation groups and NGOs. The 3-days event...
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PH Economy and Politics, Is there a Disconnection?
* This is my article today in BusinessWorld Weekender.-----------Many people are asking why there seems to be a disconnect between the Philippines’ dynamic economic performance on the one hand, and its...
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AEC 11: Trade and Economic Development is Social Development
I arrived yesterday afternoon from Kuala Lumpur, after attending half-day of Day 1 (April 22) and half-day of Day 2 (April 23) where I was one of three speakers in a panel workshop on "Will Greater...
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Nepal 4: Earthquake and Civil Society Initiatives
Very sad to see the huge destruction in Kathmandu and other places in Nepal after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake yesterday.Reports as of this writing say that there were 2,500+ deaths and 60,000+ injured...
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AEC 12: Workshop on Trade Liberalization at the APF 2015, Kuala Lumpur
Last week, April 23, I was one of three speakers in a workshop on trade and investment liberalization in the ASEAN organized by the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) and South East...
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