YELLOW 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...
“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 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....
Read MoreYellow Pad By Icia de Guzman Christmas, celebrated every Dec. 25, is believed to be the “birthday” of Jesus, born 100% man and 100% God according to the Bible. It is the most celebrated season in the Philippines primarily...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Jessica Reyes-Cantos The pandemic years have been quite difficult for our people. The majority of our vulnerable people have borne the brunt of the shocks — closed schools, lost jobs, sickness, and worse, death....
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno Sta. Ana III Dani Rodrik a world-renowned professor of economics known for his trenchant criticism of globalization (his preferred term: “hyper-globalization”), was the keynote speaker at the annual...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Nepomuceno Malaluan Twenty years ago, a number of organizations came together to push for the passage of a Freedom of Information (FOI) law. The proposed legislation seeks to provide operational details to a fuller...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Paula Mae Tanquieng I have worked on health policy for more than a decade, but I have never seen health given so much importance by ordinary Filipinos until recently. COVID-19 has made our society and politics more...
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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,...
