YELLOW PAD By Pia Rodrigo The Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Law is now ready to be implemented. On June 21, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez and Department of Finance...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Rene R. Raya PISA is not the leaning tower, but rather it stands for Program for International Student Assessment. TIMSS stands for Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. In the 1999 TIMSS involving...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Laurence Go The 2022 elections are less than a year away, so it is not at all surprising that we are constantly bombarded with news of presidentiables, and to a lesser extent, the vice-presidentiables. Different...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Beyond his ninth day of death or the 40-day novena, beyond next year, beyond the change of an era, we need to tell and retell stories about PNoy. Perhaps, some of us by this time may feel...
Read MoreFrom the start of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, experts and doctors emphasized equitable vaccine distribution as the key to ending the pandemic. Unfortunately, aside from having more physical barriers to vaccination, those of...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Today’s politics in Israel is complicated and confusing, and seems crazy. The coalition that has replaced Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year regime is an oddball mix of eight political parties....
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Pia Rodrigo In December 2020, Tobacconomics launched the first edition of its “Cigarette Tax Scorecard,” a study assessing cigarette tax policy performance in more than 170 countries between 2012 and 2018. The good...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Jessica Reyes-Cantos Have you ever scrutinized the receipt that your local government issues whenever you pay your annual real property tax (RPT)? On top of the basic tax on your real property, you will find...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Rey Casambre Fifteen months after the first COVID-19 incursions into Philippine territory, we are still groping for the proper balance between confining ourselves to the relative safety of our homes and daring to...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS Still thinking of what to write for the column on the eve of submission, I received a text message from an old friend, Doc Rogie Tangco. Rogie said he was...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Figure 1: Krugman’s workhorse macro model Figure 2: Achieving Potential Output and Preventing Overheating (Krugman) The economist Paul Krugman wrote an essay in The New York Times (May 7,...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III and Jessica Reyes-Cantos The logic is simple. All other things being equal, the price increases as supply of the particular good decreases. Alternatively, all things being equal, the price...
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