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Capital liberalization and stockmarket growth in Asia
The ADB released its "Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2016" report nearly two weeks ago. I found these data interesting. These tables are cropped, I removed other countries and years to focus...
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Less government means good governance
I posted this quote in my fb wall more than 4 years ago, the merits of small or limited government. And two weeks ago, I attended the EPDP forum on energy efficiency at UPSE. Good initiative, good and...
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BWorld 90, Who should set the energy mix, government or consumers?
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last November 02, 2016.This question seems to have a “default” answer: the government and it is time to revisit the premise of government being the central...
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Top 1,000 corps 2015, the 401-1,000 ranks
I notice that there is high interest and pageviews of Top 1,000 corporations 2015 here where I posted only the top 400 corporations. To continue that, here are the next 600 firms, those that ranked 401...
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Energy 81, Trump's climate and energy policies
Anthropogenic or "man-made" climate change (CC) hypothesis is actually 5% climate science and 95% political science. A realistic view is that CC is natural (ie, 'nature-made') and cyclical...
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Jop Yap on Trump-Putin connection
Posting with permission Dr. Josef "Jop" Yap's take on the recent US elections. The images are my addition, not part of Jop's paper. My brief comments after his article.-----------The Russians Did...
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BWorld 91, Free trade means faster growth in manufacturing
* This is my article in BusinessWorld today.There is a populist and persistent belief that free trade means weakening, if not, bringing about the death of local manufacturing industries because they...
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Energy 82, Jarius Bondoc on FIT for renewables
I am reposting the article of Jarius Bondoc in his column in Philippine Star today. My comments and discussions after his paper.Enough is enough. Developers of renewable energy (RE) must stop making us...
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Libingan ng mga Bayani... at Diktador-Kawatan
Noontime today, former dictator and President of the Philippines for 20 years (1965 to late February 1986), Ferdinand Marcos was hurriedly and secretly buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LnmB,...
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BWorld 92, Climate action and Asian energy realities
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Friday.Planet Earth is estimated by geologists and other scientists to be 4.6 billion years old. In that period, the world has experienced a series of...
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EFN Asia 62, Program for Conference 2016, Manila
The Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia conference 2016 will start in two days, November 22-23, 2016 at Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati. It is organised by EFN Asia and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for...
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Competition Policy 6, Presentation at ALB Thomson-Reuters forum
Last week, I was one of four speakers on the Asian Legal Business (ALB) and Thomson-Reuters' forum on the Competition Policy.I started with the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index...
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Energy 83, The PEMC-NGCP Electricity Summit 2016, low ESSPs last October and...
The annual Electricity Summit jointly organized by the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC) and the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) will be held next week in Davao City,...
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EFN Asia 63, Day 1 of Conference 2016
The Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia conference 2016 at Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati ended last Wednesday. Thanks again FNF and EFN for another wonderful conference.Here are some tweets from...
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BWorld 93, ASEAN multinationals
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last November 23, 2016.Until the 1980s, when people talk about multinational enterprises (MNEs) -- also known as multinational companies (MNCs) or transnational...
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Energy 84, CCC's anti-coal, anti-fossil fuel lobbying
The Climate Change Commission (CCC) was created mainly to echo the UN FCCC agreements and lobbying. They may deny this of course but from its activities and advocacies, they point to this fact. Look at...
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Climate Tricks 57, Inability to disprove past global warming precedents
Whenever some people would insist on the anthropogenic or "man-made" global warming/climate change (CC), I ask these three questions.1. Planet Earth is 4.6 billion years old, when was the time, what...
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BWorld 94, Economic freedom, taxes and tariffs in Asia
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last December 01, 2016.Human prosperity is not possible if there is no economic freedom, if people do not have the freedom to own private property and have freedom...
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Transport Econ 19, On taxi fare contracting
This Christmas season, if you're in a hurry to an important meeting or Christmas party/reunion and wanting to get a taxi and no Uber or Grab car around, don't wait for the taxi driver to do...
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Energy 85, Trump transition team questions for US DOE
I find the 74 questions sent by Mr. Trump's transition team to the current DOE leadership as frank and highly sensible. But there are many news reports attacking the letter and questions, saying they...
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