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CSOs and State 20, Gawad Kalinga and Housing for the Poor
Below are some thoughts from Benito Claudio, a friend of my former professor in UP Diliman in the 80s, Dr. Doy Romero. This was posted last week by Benito and sir Doy in fb and was read by many...
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Macro Econ Update
My sister's accounting and auditing firm, Alas Oplas and Co., CPAs (AOC) has produced a new monthly publication, the Business and Economic Update. Issue no. 1 for this month was released last week. I...
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CSOs and State 21, Patient Organizations, PAPO and HealthPRx
During the 2-days Medicines Transparency Alliance-Philippines' MeTA National Forum 2015 last February 17-18 held at Bayleaf Hotel in Manila, I noticed a significant change in NGOs involvement in public...
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Climate Tricks 41, CO2 Leads Temperature, or Vice Versa?
There is an interesting article yesterday in WUWT, Presentation of Evidence Suggesting Temperature DrivesAtmospheric CO2 more than CO2 Drives Temperature. The author is right on target when he...
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Energy Econ 38, Solar Power in Germany and in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental
Many sectors have been hoodwinked into believing that solar power is "free" and "reliable". At day time, yes, it is free, one does not need a single power plant to produce lights.Here is the case of...
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Market Failure vs. Government Failure, Part 5
* This is my guest article for suarakebebasan.org, a new website for freedom created by some Indonesian friends.---------Market Failure vs. Government FailureExpert Column Bienvenido Oplas Junior |...
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BWorld 5, Transportation Bureaucracy and Uber
(This is my article last week in BW Weekender)AMONG the major complaints of passengers of regular taxis are (a) drivers who are choosy about faraway or traffic-congested destinations, (b) the risk of...
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Islamic Militance 2, ISIS Threats in South East Asia
Last month, I attended this conference at Edsa Shangrila. I learned there that the main sponsor was the Office of the President; I thought it was the RSIS in Singapore because all the key speakers were...
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AEC 13, SEANET Website, AFAS in Financial Services
The South East Asia Network for Development (SEANET) website, http://seanetwork.asia/, has been expanded. It now has more pages, more contents. Check it guys, thanks.Yesterday, I attended this lecture...
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BWorld 6, Biotechnology, Innovation and the Philippines
* This is my article yesterday in BWorld Weekender.BIOTECHNOLOGY involves food production and healthcare. It involves life: from new rice or vegetable varieties that are resistant to certain pests --...
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Extortionist Traffic Enforcers in Ortigas, Pasig City
This story was reported by Kicker Daily News last December. It's about some traffic enforcers in Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, who extort money from hapless motorists. Vehicles going...
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Fiscal Irresponsibility 29, On the so-called DBM "Underspending" in 2014
A physician friend posted this report last week. Many of his friends (except me of course) blasted the "underspending". The report says, Abad attributed the sluggish spending mainly to the "structural...
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Election 13, Bernard Ong's Analysis
I do not want to do serious political analysis of the coming May 2016 Presidential, Senatorial and local elections in the Philippines for several reasons. First, my hands are full with other papers to...
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Business 360-25, Economic Liberalization and GDP Expansion
* This is my article for Media 9's business magazine in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 2015 issue, column on "Free Market."--------Economic Liberalization and GDP ExpansionEconomic liberalization, such as...
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Election 14, The Middle Earth of PH Politics, by Doy Romero
The Presidential and local elections in the Philippines are just 10 1/2 months away. Generally it will be a battle between which side of Big Government advocates will prevail. Nonetheless, we can...
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AEC 14, SEANET-ABAC Meeting, IDEAS-OBG Partnership
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will materialize in just six months, at end-December 2015. Many people both within and outside the region are excited about this common market project, composed of...
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BWorld 7, Free Trade vs.Protectionism via Non-Tariff Measures
* This is my article for BusinessWorld Weekender. Posted online yesterday, hard copy is published today.-------Trade, human welfare, and their barriersTRADE is perhaps the single most important...
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BWorld 8, Manila's Traffic and Transport Woes
* This is my second article for BusinessWorld Weekender yesterday.------Metro Manila’s transport woes and the aircon-van alternative ELLEN is a senior accountant in one of the offices on Ayala Avenue,...
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CSOs and State 22, CIPS' Community Schools Project in Indonesia
Here is another noble project worth supporting. Our friends in Jakarta, new independent think tank Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS) is launching a big project -- to develop NGO-administered...
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Election 15, On Inclusive, Principled, Competent and Humble Presidentiables
My former Prof. in undergrad Political Science subject in UP Diliman in the 80s, Dr. Segundo "Doy" Romero, asked yesterday in his fb wall, "Is Mar Roxas inclusive, principled, competent, and humble as...
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