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CSOs and State 21, Another round of Books for the Barrios
Inspired by the continuing advocacy of #booksforthebarrios by my Pinoy friend in California, Monchit Arellano, I would occasionally bring some old books to a rice farming village in Brgy. Laguit...
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BWorld 116, Urban transport myths and the jeepney strike
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last March 01, 2017.Traffic congestion in urban areas is an engineering problem with engineering solutions. It is a result of some market failures with market...
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Drugs War 4, The NYT documentary
There is a new NYT docu, I watched it but was not able to finish it, I stopped. More than the sights of so many dead bodies on the streets (zero trial, zero investigation, zero hearing of the other...
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BWorld 117, Energy bureaucracy, electric cooperatives and NEA
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last March 08, 2017.The Philippines experienced a seemingly energy revival in 2016 and 2017 with plenty of new power plants commissioned and running. Mindanao...
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Climate Tricks 61, Obama's $1B transfer to the UN climate fund
This is a delayed post. I gathered these news reports in mid-January 2017, about 1-2 weeks before Donald Trump would be officially inaugurated as the next US President.There was a debate in the US...
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BWorld 118, Regulate this, prohibit that: bureaucracies in transportation
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last March 14, 2017.Traffic congestion is an engineering problem with engineering solutions, not bureaucratic solutions involving increased prohibitions.The recent...
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Energy 92, Asia retains big coal use
There are many reports now saying that "Asia moving away from coal" or "Asia embracing more renewables, ditching coal" and similar stories. These claims are half-truths and hence, generally not...
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BWorld 119, Seven myths in the mining debate
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on March 15, 2017.The endless debate in mining is largely fueled by endless myths and disinformation that fan more emotionalism than reason. Below are some of...
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Pol. Ideology 70, Socialism and the politics of envy
Why socialists are wrong :-) Many people yearn for equality, forced equality in society. If this is so, then anyone can demand that his/her monthly pay be at least 10% of what Mark Zuckerberg is...
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BWorld 120, Five myths of solar-wind energy
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on March 20, 2017Variable renewable energy (RE) like wind and solar are far out from giving humanity sufficient, stable, and cheap electricity to sustain growth...
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Mining 48, Sec. Gina Lopez's rants, DENR inaction in other sectors
The other day, DENR Secretary Gina Lopez was recorded belittling a BWorld reporter as...
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BWorld 121, The PH tax reform bill and tax policies in East Asia
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on March 24, 2017.The current tax reform proposal of the Duterte administration promises to improve the Philippines’ competitiveness mainly by reducing income tax...
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Energy 93, Coal imports in East Asia
I saw these interesting charts from Index Mundi. Data until 2013 only but useful nonetheless. Source is US EIA. The medium-users in East Asia -- MY, TH and...
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Mining 49, Ma'am Monsod on poverty in mining areas
Recycling an old article I wrote in September 2013, I re-read this BWorld article by my former undergrad thesis adviser in UPSE in the 80s, Ma'am Winnie Monsod.She wrote,“… the incidence of poverty in...
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Inequality 32, Free land distribution, free housing Kadamay
Free land, free housing, free education, free healthcare, free cash transfer, and so on. And soon free iPad, free tricycle or free car for the poor. If this is done in the Philippines or in any other...
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BWorld 122, Six more myths in the mining debate
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last March 29, 2017.A piece that I wrote for this space, “Seven myths in the mining debate” (March 15), has attracted attention from many readers, expressing...
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EFN Asia 65, Asian cafe on climate change, Conference 2015
I forgot to post this earlier, my talking points when I hosted one of the "Asian Café" on climate change, EFN Asia Conference 2015 in Bhutan.I don't have any picture during the small group discussion,...
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BWorld 123, Drug-related murders and criminal justice in Asia
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on March 30, 2017.While there is continuing (legal and political) debate whether extrajudicial killings (EJK) are happening in the Duterte administration or not,...
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Mining 50, Canada mining taxation
This is from Natural Resources Canada. They seem to have a rational and non tax-hungry policy in mining there, lots of allowable deductions, they recognize the capital-intensiveness of mining with huge...
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BWorld 124, On Grab, Uber, traffic and LTFRB
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on April 11, 2017.The sharing economy is among the wonderful new inventions as humanity innovates with more modern technology. Technology companies (not transport...
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