YELLOW PAD By Maria Angela M. Villa BENZOIX / FREEPIK The advent of COVID-19 vaccines has created excitement. It engulfs everyone. Finally, after months of waiting while we put up our best defenses to protect the Filipinos, we...
Action for Economic Reforms (AER), informed that the bicameral conference committee will meet to reconcile the Senate and House versions of the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives Reform Act (CREATE) Bill, has called on both...
YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta Ana III Bill Gates says “there is good news coming in 2021.” But that’s not for the whole world. Perhaps there’s optimism in America, with Donald Trump exiting and a mass vaccination program being...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III This year, 2020, is annus horribilis. The statistics are grim: close to 1.7 million people out of 76.1 million cases, globally, and still counting, have died from coronavirus...
Read MoreAction for Economic Reforms, through this Policy Note, aims to take a crack at the Supply-Utilization Accounts and discuss supply-side issues of rice in the Philippines. The latter, being a long-standing food security concern,...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Rayla Melchor Santos Allertsen FREEPIK I didn’t know of the English idiom “elephant in the room” before. When I called my web designer and friend Cons Raquel to do the design for www.iamsamfoundation.com, it...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Maria Carmela Agustin-Kasala, MD The year 2020 has certainly been such a different kind of year, what with the COVID-19 global pandemic changing our lives and our lifestyle. Who would have thought, earlier in the...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Pia Rodrigo On 26 November 2020, the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) bill was passed on third and final reading in the Senate, marking the end of more than two decades of struggle for...
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