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Investment Lib. 3, Free mobility of capital complements free trade
The benefits of free trade and trade liberalization, unilateral or bilateral or multilateral, is maximized if it is coupled with investments liberalization. Allow freer movement of goods and...
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BWorld 35, Inter-island shipping and the PPA, Coast Guard
* This is my article in BusinessWorld yesterday.The Philippines is the second largest archipelago in Asia-Pacific in terms of number of islands and islets, next to Indonesia. Air and sea travel...
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Energy 51, More on solar power and supply instability
My previous article in BWorld on Solar power and supply instability attracted various comments from friends and strangers. A socialist friend posted my article in his fb page, because they hate...
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Demography 25, Ageing societies, Japan's depopulation
Human population, whether rising or declining, should be left as individual and parental decision and responsibility, not government decision and responsibility. Should there be population explosion or...
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Climate Tricks 47, Severe UK flooding due to "man-made" warming, climate change?
Never fails. Less rain or more rain or no rain, less flood or more flood or no flood, less storms or more storms or no storm, they are ALL proof of "man-made" warming and climate change. tsk tsk tsk.In...
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This year, things have been generally good for me. Let me enumerate a few things.1. Two Fellowships. Last March, I was officially appointed as a SEANET (South East Asia Network for Development) Fellow...
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Top 10 good news about the world, Happy new year
Despite all the negative news, stories and analysis of the world and many countries, the world is actually getting better, more peaceful, have less famine-related problems. Human progress continues,...
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AEC 17, ASEAN economic integration cemented today
Today, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), one of three pillars of the regional grouping, materializes. It further cements what has been initiated several decades ago, to have a single production base,...
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Happy new year 2016
Happy new year, 2016. Let us stay positive and optimistic this year and the succeeding years. On this note, I am reposting 9 of the 16 reasons given by Daniel Hannan, a Conservative Member of the...
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BWorld 36, What if the Philippines splits into many new island-countries?
* This is my article in BusinessWorld yesterday.This piece will attempt to provide an outlook for the Philippines many decades from now, a view different from articles and analyses seeking to explain...
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Pol. Ideology 65, Liberals and liberty, positive and negative freedom
Reposting here a good article by a friend, published yesterday in a paper in Kuala Lumpur. Good discussion about liberal vs. illiberal, liberty vs. coercion, positive vs. negative...
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ALF 4, Conference 2016 in Kuala Lumpur
Aside from the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia annual conferences, the second biggest annual event for free market leaders, scholars and advocates in the region is the Asia Liberty Forum (ALF)....
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BWorld 37, World rule of law index and the Philippines
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 08, 2016.Among the gut issues that directly affect the ordinary people in many countries in the world is the peace and order situation, their freedom...
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Climate Tricks 48, Denying climate cycles
Yesterday, I participated in the two-days Energy Policy Development Program (EPDP) Conference 2016. I was one of the panel speakers in the simultaneous discussions and I talked on this subject.My...
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BWorld 38, Climate change and the need for cheap energy
* This is my article in BusinessWorld yesterday.Climate changes from warming to cooling to warming to cooling, in endless natural and cyclical pattern. A period of global warming for decades is...
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Climate Tricks 49, No extreme weather, no severe storms in the past?
This is the continuation of my presentation at the Energy Policy Development Program (EPDP) Conference 2016, held at New World Hotel Makati last January 12-13, this week.Here is Section II of the...
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Free Trade 59, TPP membership expansion in SE Asia
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement is expected to become operational and implemented around 2-3 years from now, when all the 12 member-countries have ratified the deal. The idea of zero...
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Energy 52, Renewables to "save the planet", Germany and UK cases
This is section III of my presentation, Climate change and the need for cheaper and stable energy sources during the Energy Policy Development Program (EPDP) Conference 2016 this week, January 12-13 at...
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China Watch 22, On many rich Chinese leaving their country
China implosion, it will happen because people and nature hate heavy restrictions and dictatorship. This event will have huge impact on the rest of the world especially in Asia. Not soon, but a few...
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Energy 53, Expensive electricity + mandatory renewables, Philippine case
This is section IV of my presentation, Climate change and the need for cheaper and stable energy sources during the EPDP Conference 2016 this week, January 12-13 at the New World Hotel in Makati.The...
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