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BWorld 440, Growth recovery via stable, cheaper electricity
* My article in BusinessWorld, June 18, 2020.There is a direct and close relationship between electricity consumption and GDP growth so the former with real-time data can be used as a proxy to estimate...
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Drug Price Control 48, DOH orientation on MWP, MRP
There was a DOH orientation for patients and consumer groups about EO 104 last week, June 26. I learned about it from CHAT googlegroups, I forgot to register early, I registered midnight the night...
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BWorld 441, Decline in pneumonia incidence
* My column in BusinessWorld, June 25, 2020.While we have gotten used to this continuing COVID-19 scourge, there is some good health news somewhere, particularly the decline in other infectious and...
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Weekend Fun 72, Airline mergers
Lots of corporate bankruptcies going on because of the various lockdowns, so lots of mergers happening too. Among the dangerous mergers:1. PAL + Thai air = PaThai.2. Korean air + PAL = KoPal.3. PAL +...
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Covid 14, Selected articles by Mahar Mangahas on the pandemic
I like these three papers by SWS President Mahar Mangahas. Reposting portions of them below. All photos here I got from the web.(1)Allow people the freedom to earn a living By: Mahar Mangahas -...
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BWorld 442, GDP, CO2 emissions, and coal-gas consumption
* My article in BusinessWorld, July 2, 2020.This year marks several important global milestones in macro-economy and the energy sector. These include the coveted $100 billion/year of climate money...
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On Congressional franchising
Many people lambast the House of Representatives and Malacanang for the non-renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise which expired last May. The House Bill granting another 25 years franchise was killed at the...
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Covid 15, False positives and Sweden success in "flattening the curve"
A good FB post here by Dr Roy Spencer, an academic climatologist from U. of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) yesterday July 17. It's about false positives, patients found to be positive and symptomatic of...
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BWorld 443, Vaccine to avert more IPD, pneumonia deaths
* My article in BusinessWorld last July 9, 2020.From 2016-2018, pneumonia killed on average about 57,000 people per year in the Philippines. It is the fourth most deadly disease in the country next to...
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Drug Price Control 49, The FEF statement
The Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) issued a well-written position paper the other day, July 22, about drug price control. They wrote,"... We would like to caution that the recently signed...
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Interview with ABS-CBN on huge public debt
Last July 7, I got an invite from Ms. Kristine Sabillo of ABS-CBN for an interview re the Philippines' high public borrowings, reference to their story last July 3,...
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BWorld 444, Economic hardships worse than virus risks
* My column in BusinessWorld last July 16, 20202.The Philippines needs to open up the economy fast and not prolong the lockdown, hard or mild. It has some of the worst economic indicators compared to...
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Agenda One News, Part 5
Another bravado-filled State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Duterte yesterday. Some good news but many bad news, anti-business pronouncements.This morning I was the second of three guests of...
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Covid 16, Philippines having the strictest lockdown policies in the world
The Philippines has the strictest lockdown policies perhaps in the whole world. And this is the main reason for the terribly limping economy.I got data from Google Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports...
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PSA updated data on PH death statistics
Kudos to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) for updating the country's death statistics until June 2020. PSA Chief, the National Statistician and Civil Registrar General, is Dr. Dennis Mapa (BS...
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BWorld 445, Virtue signaling in energy
* My column in BusinessWorld, July 23, 2020.Virtue signaling is the process and habit of taking a conspicuous but generally unproductive action supposedly to advance a good cause but actually to show...
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Covid 17, Hard lockdown Europe vs no lockdown Sweden, any difference in death...
Six European countries were heavily affected by Covid-19 or Wuhan virus: Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and UK. As of August 03, 2020, they have 460+ or higher deaths per million population...
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The PH's Q2 2020 GDP meltdown
The Philippines experienced technically an economic meltdown in the second quarter (Q2) this year with a -16.5% GDP contraction, the lowest since 1981. The country is also in a recession having a two...
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BWorld 446, More water and investments, less political whims
* My column in BusinessWorld last July 30, 2020.During President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) 2020 last Monday, he lashed out again at the Lopezes and other conglomerates and...
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Interview at BusinessWorld Live, One News
This morning I was interviewed by Jester de los Santos, host of "BusinessWorld Live TV" in One News, Cignal TV, about the Philippine economy as a result of the deep GDP contraction of -16.5% in the...
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