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IPR and Innovation 29, Civil society enforcement of patents, copyrights
Property rights, physical or intellectual, are good only if they are enforced. While the means of property rights protection is via government, national and local, there are other non-governmental,...
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Energy 54, Need for cheaper, reliable energy sources
These are sections 5 and 6 of my presentation, Climate change and the need for cheaper and stable energy sources during the EPDP Conference 2016 last week, January 12-13 at the New World Hotel in...
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RIP, Bob Carter
I have met this man twice in 2010, in Chicago and Sydney, both for an international climate conference. In Chicago, I just listened to him during a coffee break. In Sydney, I told him that I'm a good...
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Free Trade 60, PH Constitution vs. services liberalization, Malaysia in TPP
A friend asked me what is in the Philippine Constitution that can prevent the country from joining free trade agreements (FTAs) like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). I said that it's the...
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Telecom Oligoply 3: Viral story against Globe tel
This is Globe Telecom, one of two telecom duopoly in this country of 102 or 103 million people. The other is Smart/PLDT. Nice promise by Globe, no? Happy customers, customers first, keep things simple,...
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Global ranking of my 5 blogs
I have eight blogs, four in blogger.com and another four in wordpress.com. Five of them have global ranks in alexa.com. There are perhaps hundreds of millions of blogs and websites worldwide, both in...
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Global warming hits Asia, Part 4
Back to back with "Snowzilla" and another "Snowmageddon" in the US East Coast, "man-made" global warming hits East Asia too. Hey UN, Al Gore, WWF, Greenpeace, Oxfam, CCC, WB, ADB, other planet...
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BWorld 39, Coal and renewables complement each other
* This is my article in BusinessWorld yesterday.In many literatures on energy and environment, electricity and climate policies, the dominant view is that fossil fuels in general, and coal power in...
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Government bail outs and prohibitions
Some people think that the US financial turmoil in 2008-2009 was caused by free market or less government policies, that none of the major players responsible were arrested, and that the US taxpayers...
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EFN Asia 54, On Hong Kong and China, free trade and CEPA
I am reposting an interview by the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia of Andrew Work (AW). Andrew is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Harbour Times (HT), the flagship of New Work Media. Before...
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Top 1,000 corporations 2015
BusinessWorld published the Top 1,000 corporations 2015 last month, representing data for 2014. They are selling it, a thick report. I don't know if it's available online to their subscribers. Anyway,...
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Business 360-33, Cheap energy now and in the future
* This is my article in the monthly business magazine in Kathmandu, Nepal, January 2016 issue.--------Cheap energy now and in the futureCheap oil has become even cheaper. High oil, coal, natural gas...
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BWorld 40, CCT vs other welfare programs, SSS vs pension deregulation
* This is my article in BusinessWorld the other day, January 27.It appears now that there are many data showing that the conditional cash transfer (CCT) is good and successful in reducing poverty....
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Free Trade 61, Unilateral liberalization in Pakistan
I stumbled upon this presentation in a forum organized by the Policy Research Institute for Market Economy (PRIME) based in Islamabad, Pakistan. PRIME is headed by a friend, Ali Salman. Good event,...
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Climate Tricks 50, Letter to the US HOR Committee on Science, Space and...
This week, a group of scientists, engineers, physicians, economists, mostly from the US but with other signatories from abroad, wrote the Chairman of the US' House Committee on Science, Space and...
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Weekend Fun 60, Equality vs. equity, sameness vs. fairness, justice vs. laziness
This meme has been circulating in social media for sometime. Equality is not = Justice. Hmmm...Another one, this time, Equality is not = equity. Hmmm....Ok. So from the above, there is a definition on...
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Free Trade 62, IDEAS supports TPP Agreement for Malaysia
The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) released a new 12-pages report urging the Malaysian Parliament and the public to support and sign the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement...
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IPR and Innovation 30, More on IPRI 2015 launching in KL last year
I am reposting this article from the Property Rights Index (PRA, Washington DC) last year, about the launching of IPRI 2015 in Kuala Lumpur that I attended. The photos I added and not part of the...
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Climate Tricks 51, The CCC, Greenpeace and fossil fuels
A friend, Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Commssioner Chito Gascon posted this status and photos last January 28.On 27 January 2016, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), with the Climate Change...
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Energy 55, Old renewables and coal are cool, complementary and not contradictory
* This is my article in SPARK by ADRi last January 26, 2016.Old renewables and coal are cool, they are complementary and not contradictoryJanuary 29, 2016Bienvenido Oplas, Jr., Stratbase Albert del...
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