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The most often used measure of development of any country is its gross domestic product (GDP) expressed in total or in per capita basis. The bigger is the size of its GDP or the higher the per…
For this Monday’s state of the nation address of the President, I endeavor to present in a table the macroeconomic performance of the Philippine economy beginning with the last year of the former president in 2016 up…
Now that our newly elected local government executives in the country have already assumed their respective offices as provincial governors, city mayors, and municipal mayors, it is interesting to see how they think of projects that they…
At the start of the new millennium, the ratio of college-to-high school students was 0.45 or 45 college students per 100 high school students. Based on this ratio the potential demand for college education in the municipality…
Five days ago, the Department of Finance (DoF) in an economic bulletin reported that regional inequality in the Philippines eased in 2018 compared to 2016 and 2017, citing lower measures of variability in the gross regional domestic…
Happy Independence Day, Everyone! To be independent means to be free. Are we free? I declare that we are truly free or independent only if we find the least among us being able to free themselves from…
In my class in economics and in public management and development, I often say that there is no development without good governance. I am saying this again now to our newly elected local and national government officials…
Known as the land of promise, Mindanao accounts for 34 percent of the Philippines’ 300,000 square kilometers of land. The island is greatly endowed with minerals, particularly in the Caraga Region, and wide tracts of land that…
I did not know exactly when the idea of Mindanao as promise land started. When I was young, I saw for myself two of our neighbors who left with their whole family for Mindanao. I did not…
This is the first time I write on politics here. Now I say that that it pains me to learn that not one member of the Otso Diretso team which run for senators won in last Monday’s…
The latest report on the performance of the different regions of the country shows that the Central Visayas Region grew by 7.6 percent in 2018 in real terms at constant 2000 prices, up from 5.2 percent in…
In the 2000 Census, the Municipality Dalaguete in the province of Cebu had a total household population of 49,113 aged five years old or higher. Of these, only 5,895 or 12.01 percent had post-secondary or higher…
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