Failure of policy to shift from early success in import substitution into export industrialization and poor governance in general, characterized by high level of corruption from the top down to the local level, constrained the country from…
Sorry my dear readers for my long absence. The reason is this: it’s not easy to lose someone you really loved very much, more so if they were two in a row. I had to take a…
I just read an April 15 article titled “Defending Japan and the Philippines Is Not Entrapment” and written by Jeffrey Ordaniel at The National Interest on line magazine. He started with a statement that in August 2013,…
I was in Cagayan de Oro City last week for the assembly of the Regional Competitiveness Councils (RCCs) that were organized under the auspices of the National Competitiveness Council (NCC). Composed of government and private sector representatives,…
The government just captured husband and wife Benito and Wilma Tiamzon. Benito, according to the government, is chairman of the CPP/NPA while Wilma is the secretary general. This must be an interesting time for the government. The…
In 2011, the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA), the gateway to various tourist destinations in the Visayas Islands served a total of 4.75 million incoming and outgoing domestic passengers and more than 1.47 million incoming and outgoing…
The first decade of the new millennium saw the Philippine economy rising faster annually than in the previous three administrations. Under Arroyo, the economy grew by close to 5 percent a year. With just about 2.0 percent…
What is enough and a reasonable wage?We just learned that the Central Visayas Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) approved giving a token amount to workers, an amount which according to the workers is not even…
The government conducts a Labor Force Survey every January, April, July and October of the year. In December last year, the government reported that the country’s unemployment rate in the October 2013 survey month was estimated at…
During my visit last week to Cagayan de Oro (CDO) City, the capital of Misamis Oriental province, for the wedding of my nephew, I finally saw the newly inaugurated Laguindingan International Airport near the coast of the…
On 19th November 2013, voting 14-0, the Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or “pork barrel.” What about the Disbursement Acceleration Fund (DAP) that very few people knew or understood before Senator…
