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Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Current economic policy is focused on fighting the pandemic. The Central Bank has loosened monetary policy, and the national government has hiked its expenditures by allowing a higher...
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Trust and credibility to win the war against COVID-19
Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Imposing and extending the lockdown or the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) is a difficult choice to make. The biggest casualty is the economy. That the Philippine economy (and for the...
Read MoreDefining the New Normal: Solidarity and structural change for a post-COVID-19 economy
By Marjorie Muyrong and Jerik Cruz WHAT SHOULD our COVID-19 “new normal” look like? As economic stimulus bills for the pandemic are now being debated in Congress, questions on how the Philippine economy will be transformed in...
Read MoreRoberto (Obet) Verzola: The known and the unknown
Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Many of Obet’s friends and colleagues have written fine, glowing tributes about his life. But there’s more to know about him, considering that he shied away from publicity and...
Read MoreExpertise in the Time of COVID-19
Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Fellow BusinessWorld columnist Diwa Guinigundo had recently written a column, but for another newspaper, titled “My perspective on some lockdown perspectives” (see Manila Bulletin, April...
Read MoreComparing the Philippine economic package to fight COVID-19 to the response of other countries
Yellow Pad By Carlos Jacinto BW FILE PHOTO The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled economies all over the world, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicting the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression nearly a...
Read MoreBringing the COVID-19 fight to where it lives
Yellow Pad By Juan Antonio Perez III Exactly a month ago, former Economic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia (then the concurrent chair of the Commission on Population and Development or POPCOM, where I work as Executive...
Read MoreCOVID-19 social amelioration issues
Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS Flattening the COVID-19 curve requires having a lockdown. In the Philippines, the lockdown is euphemistically called enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). The...
Read MoreAn urgent call for unified action
Yellow Pad By Eddie Dorotan We are now into the third week since the lockdown, otherwise known as the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). To be exact, we are on Day 20 of the lockdown since March 15, 2020. To date, 136 people...
Read MoreLuzon-wide transport ban hurts the poor, subverts public health
Yellow Pad By Sarah Arrojado, Regina Mora, and Jedd Ugay Kailangan ng taong pumunta sa palengke para bumili ng pagkain, sa botika para bumili ng gamot, at sa ospital para magpa-check-up o magpa-opera. Paano makararating...
Read MoreHow prepared are we to fight Covid-19? What has to be done?
Yellow Pad By Juan Antonio Perez III That all countries failing the test of beating COVID-19 is not an imagined fear. What we are seeing now is severe stress to the point of failure in all country health systems, regardless of...
Read MoreCOVID-19 and collective action
Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III The Lancet, the most accessible peer-reviewed medical journal, discusses the COVID-19 crisis in stark terms. Read Roy Anderson et al., “How will country-based mitigation measures...
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