The 4-Pillar Socioeconomic Strategy

Fernando Fajardo 05/06/2020

  Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Inquirer.net is constrained to take a step back and reassess its operation in Cebu. As a result, CDN Digital columnists were advised to end our tasks effective end of this…

Why we fail in our quest for export industrialization

Fernando Fajardo 01/29/2020

Achieving a higher level of development is closely intertwined with the industrialization of an economy, Cypher and Diets said in their book, The Process of Economic Development. Their data in the 1970s up to the 1990’s would…

The travails of MCWD: Part 3

Fernando Fajardo 10/30/2019

Based on my observation on the current brouhaha involving the perceived worsening water supply in Metro Cebu, nothing much had been done yet by the Metro Cebu Water District to improve its coverage and performance since I…

Educating myself about Pasil

Fernando Fajardo 09/25/2019

I first came to live in Cebu City in 1965 as a first year student at the University of San Carlos (USC). Luckily, I was able to get a teaching job in economics at USC after my…

Employment rate in July 2019 at 94.6 percent

Fernando Fajardo 09/18/2019

Two weeks ago, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the country’s employment rate in July 2019 was estimated at 94.6 percent or an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent. Three years earlier in 2016, when the present administration started, the…

The political economy of rice farming

Fernando Fajardo 09/11/2019

Rice, along with corn, is the main staple of the Filipinos. In average, a Filipino consumes about 100 kilos of rice a year. That would be about two kilos per week. An examination of the artifacts unearth…

What is Cebu proud of?

Fernando Fajardo 08/28/2019

When everything is said and done, development is all about giving everyone in our society the opportunity to work with enough income to meet not only the basic needs in life for food, clothing, shelter, education and…

Why the slowing GDP growth 

Fernando Fajardo 08/14/2019

The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 5.5 percent in the second quarter of 2019, down from 6.5 percent in the same quarter of the previous year or from 5.6 percent in the first quarter of…

No vision, no strategy, aimless

Fernando Fajardo 07/31/2019

I was reading again yesterday Paul Kennedy’s 1993 book on Preparing for the 21st Century. My purpose was to see what was right or wrong in his predictions on which country will be the winner in the…

The state of Philippine poverty

Fernando Fajardo 07/24/2019

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…

SONA 2019: The Philippine Economy in figures

Fernando Fajardo 07/17/2019

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…

Are election promises made to be broken?

Fernando Fajardo 07/10/2019

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…

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