What is progress? Are we progressing?

Fernando Fajardo 01/08/2020

I had the chance to visit many urban centers in the country last year and talked to many people I met in the streets, in the bus, airports, hotels, and just almost everywhere including taxi drivers, salespersons,…

The power of connecting: I was clueless (Part 1)

Fernando Fajardo 12/04/2019

My greatest failure in life was my failure to connect. By connecting, I mean exactly what Keith Ferrazzi said in his book, Never Eat Alone, which he wrote with Tahl Raz, as “sharing knowledge and resources, time…

Have you been to Carbon Market?

Fernando Fajardo 10/02/2019

Of course, in Cebu City, everybody does or you are not a Cebuano. Carbon Market or simply “Carbon’ is the oldest and the largest of public markets in the whole of island of Cebu and one of…

Has regional inequality narrowed down?

Fernando Fajardo 06/19/2019

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…

God bless the Philippines!

Fernando Fajardo 05/15/2019

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 Central Visayas 2018 economic performance

Fernando Fajardo 05/08/2019

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…

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