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Free Trade 53, TPP "final push" this September + paper by Dr. Clarete
There are rush efforts this month to finally push a Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. Here are some few news reports, September 16-18, 2015.From the Globe and Mail: An effort to land a massive...
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IPR and Innovation 26, Countries with most patent applications, most...
I was surprised to see this data from the WEF this week, that China has so many patent applications compared to the US, Japan, S. Korea and Germany. Original data is from WIPO. Anyway, Asia's four...
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Remembering Lean Alejandro
Yesterday was the 28th year since the great UP Diliman student leader, Lean Alejandro was killed. He was shot in the head, day time. Suspects were military/AFP people but there was no arrest, no...
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Election PH 17, Questions for Binay, Poe and Roxas
Reposting (with permission) some comments and questions by a friend, JB Baylon, posted in his fb wall. Then my additional comments below. The photos I got from the web, added here and not part of JB's...
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Energy 42, DENR's anti-coal alarmism and PH power demand realities
A weird news about the DENR last week. It says,Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon J. P. Paje said yesterday that he wrote a letter to the DoE seeking a halt to approvals for coal-fired...
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BWorld 19, Taxation and regulations in PH mining industry
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last September 22, 2015.ALMOST ALL the modern things that we enjoy now, from mobile phones to computers, TVs, refrigerators, cars, buses, trucks, tractors, planes,...
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Agri Econ 21, Rice protectionism as poverty-maximizing policy
The other day, September 23, I attended a forum on "Zero Poverty" organized by the AIM R.Navarro Policy Center, NEDA and UNDP, at Edsa Shangrila Hotel. I don't believe in "zero poverty" of course, but...
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EFN Asia 50, New network member, Center for Indonesian Policy Studies
The Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia has a new, dynamic institutional member, the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS, http://cips-indonesia.org).Congratulations, Rainer Heufers and team.I...
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Migration 25, Creating new island-countries to address refugee crisis
On the refugee crisis in Europe (mainly coming from Syria) and East Asia (mainly coming from Myanmar). One possible solution is for the EU and ASEAN countries to buy one island respectively, and put...
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Free Trade 54, Eco-protectionism at APEC 2015 meeting
Eco-protectionism is wrong. The idea that countries and economies should erect new trade barriers on top of existing ones, tariff or non-tariff, to cut carbon emission is wrong. Trade precedes growth...
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Washington DC, meetings and conference
The first time I went to Washington DC in the US was in May 2004. I was one of several International Fellows of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, then based in Fairfax, Virginia (now based in...
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IPR and Innovation 26, India strengthening its IP protection
There are a number of positive news in India recently regarding strengthening its intellectual property right (IPR) protection. Among the most recent was the article at The Hill by Mark Elliot, the EVP...
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Mining 45, Presentation at UP Diliman
Last September 22,2015 evening, I was one of two speakers in a symposium, "OPEN MINEded ka ba?" organized by the University of the Philippines (UP) Mining Engineering Society (UP Miners) and...
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Liberty Notes from Larry Reed (1)
Updating the "Liberty Notes from Larry Reed", taken from Lawrence/Larry's facebook wall statu in 2012.Larry is the President of the Foundation for Economic Education (www.fee.org), a big free market...
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Liberty Notes from Larry Reed (2)
More notes on liberty, self reliance, personal responsibility, and a few funny quotes, from the facebook wall of Lawrence "Larry" W. Reed of the FEE, in 2011-2012.--------"It will take America fifteen...
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Liberty Notes from Larry Reed (3)
Continuation of useful quotes from Lawrence "Larry" Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in the US. Posted in his facebook wall in 2013.Photos below -- 1st row: Larry Reed,...
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TIME mag. on global warming (1)
TIME magazine seems to be among the loudest climate alarmist media around the world. Like this cover story in April 2006: be VERY worried, wow. When ice cover in the Arctic goes down, a phenomenon...
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TIME mag. on global warming (2)
These pictures and headlines from TIME magazine somehow summarizes their confusion: less rain or more rain, less snow or more snow, less storms or more storms, less cats or more cats, they are all...
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TIME mag. on global warming (3)
Another collection of "be worried, be very worried" headlines by TIME magazine, from the web.And these, dated May 27, 2014 and October 01, 2015.Large scale famine? Hehehe, old alarmism claim. Here are...
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Free Trade 55, TPP Agreement, finally
Finally, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement will become a reality soon. The final language and texts will take a few more weeks, but the deal has been reached among the original 12...
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