YELLOW PAD By Isabel Rodrigo The month of March 2023 marks three years since Luzon was placed under “enhanced community quarantine,” the beginning of what is now known as the one of the world’s longest and strictest lockdowns....
“We have 6 million less smokers today because of tobacco taxes. This is equivalent to about 60,000 deaths prevented in 2022 alone. That’s a lot of lives saved, more than I think the medical community could think of saving in our...
YELLOW PAD By AJ Montesa It seems to be a popular opinion that a glass of wine a day can be “good for the heart.” However, it’s high time we challenged this notion as nothing more than an unfounded belief. As recently as the...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Nepomuceno Malaluan In November 2022, I had the privilege of being the discussant of a paper by Dr. Helena Agnes Valderrama, professor at the University of the Philippines Virata School of Business, titled “The...
Read MoreYellow Pad By Filomeno Sta. Ana III It was 10 years ago (to be exact, on Dec. 20, 2012) that the late President Benigno S. Aquino III signed into law the Sin Tax Reform. On the first day of 2013, the government implemented...
Read MoreYellow Pad By Isabel Rodrigo As we approach three years since COVID-19 was declared an international emergency, we ought to examine how the pandemic has affected those at the margins, for whom the pandemic has taken a different...
Read MoreYellow Pad By Pia Rodrigo On Dec. 6, 2022, the Department of Health (DoH), the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), and the World Health Organization (WHO) published the results of the 2021 Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)....
Read MoreYellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III What can we expect from Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.’s administration in terms of policymaking in 2023? We can second-guess how the administration will conduct itself this year in two ways....
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Call for and Event Organizer for the 2nd COLLABDev National Assembly Action for Economic Reforms (AER), a civil society policy, advocacy and action think tank working on key issues around fiscal reforms, health measures,...
