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EFN Asia 55, Presentation by Tom Palmer in Bhutan 2015
Among the theoretical presentations during the EFN Asia Conference 2015 in Bhutan was made by Tom Palmer of Atlas. Reposting some slides and other discussions, in italics, below.Happiness and...
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Energy 56, Cost effectiveness of different energy sources
Among the presentations that I enjoyed during the EPDP Conference 2016 last month held at New World Hotel in Makati were the UPSE graduate student papers. There were 5 papers from 5 presenters, all...
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Free Trade 63, Dealing with anti-trade lib, anti-TPP activists
Another good article from Wan, CEO of IDEAS in Malaysia, reposting. The photos I just added here and not part of the original article.--------------Lessons from the TPPA debateby Wan Saiful Wan Jan....
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BWorld 41, OFWs, cheap oil and the TPP
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 04, 2016.Labor mobility and migration across countries and continents is a result of push and pull factors in both the labor exporting and labor...
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Energy 57, Tony la Vina's anti-coal alarmism
Aside from Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Oxfam and other big environmental NGOs, one prominent anti-coal (and anti-fossil fuels, anti-mining, anti-...) crusader to "save the planet" is Atty....
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Privatization 12: PH government corporations sold, retained as of 2007
I just found a hard copy of my paper presented at the 1st Pacific Rim Policy Exchange, held at Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Hawaii, in late May 2007 or nearly 9 years ago. The event was jointly sponsored by...
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IPR and Innovation 30, Patents and pharma issues in Asia in 2007
The first time that I attended a formal discussion on IPR issues like patents of newly-invented medicines was nearly 9 years ago, during the 1st Pacific Rim Policy Exchange in Hawaii. There was one...
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BWorld 42, World inequality, Oxfam and bad mathematics
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 09, 2016.There are two ways to exaggerate and sensationalize national or global income inequality. One is to compare the wealth of the top 10 or top...
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Inequality 29, More on Oxfam, squatters and a lamborghini
A friend commented on my critique of the Oxfam paper and said that it is not only Oxfam that questions rising inequality, there are also some reference to the Credit Suisse report, the last Davos...
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BWorld 43, More on WESM, PEMC and DOE
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 11, 2016.When the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA, RA 9136) was enacted, among the provisions is the creation of an independent...
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ALF 5, Meeting of Property Rights Alliance in KL
The 4th Asia Liberty Forum (ALF) started last night here at the Renaissance Hotel Kuala Lumpur, with an opening dinner, keynote speech given by Tom Palmer of Atlas. Earlier, the Property Rights...
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BWorld 44, Why the Philippines should join the TPP
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 16, 2016.Free trade is good and beautiful and the best example of it at the micro level is the tiangge-tiangge or market-market that one finds in...
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Foreign Aid 17, ADB's costly e-tricycles loan
Update on the ADB-DOE more electric tricycles, more public debt racket. Why is it a racket?(1) 100,000 more tricycles, we need less tricycles, not more.(2) Capex of $300 M loan, Filipino taxpayers will...
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IPR and Innovation 31, Plain packaging and trademark-busting
Trademarks and brand logo are important to distinguish companies and producers from each other. A customer can say, "I don't want to ride airline X because they are frequently late/delayed, nor airline...
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BWorld 45, Asia Liberty Forum and property rights
* This is my article in BusinessWorld yesterday. The classical liberal philosophy of more individual freedom and more personal/parental responsibility, free market and less government intervention and...
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ALF 6, Panel discussion on property rights
The 4th Asia Liberty Forum 2016, #AsiaLF16, has successfully ended in Kuala Lumpur last Saturday night. Among the important panel discussions was the one on “Protecting Yourself Against Daylight...
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Energy 58, Sen. Loren Legarda and renewables
Yesterday, I attended a forum on "Making Renewable Energy a Vehicle for Sustained Inclusive Growth” held at the International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the WB Group), Bonifacio Global City,...
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BWorld 46, China's debt, central planning and central crashes
* This is my article in BusinessWorld yesterday."The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” -- Friedrich Hayek.One of...
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IPR and Innovation 31, On TPP, medicines patent and tobacco trademark
After the 4th Asia Liberty Forum (ALF) ended in Kuala Lumpur on February 20, SEANET organized a small group discussion on "business friendly regulations", same hotel venue. I was one of those invited....
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Electric cars, the promise... of inconvenience?
A friend posted a bloomberg article about the promises of e-cars. The report said,"In the next two years, Tesla and Chevy plan to start selling electric cars with a range of more than 200 miles priced...
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