Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III The CREATE bill (Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act) has drawn sharp criticism from some economists. A major if not principal criticism is about the accelerated...
Read MoreYellow Pad By Sally and Gerry Bulatao NATIONAL IRRIGATION ADMINISTRATION Reverting the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) from the Office of the President (OP) to the Department of Agriculture (DA) is an important matter...
Read MoreYellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III That we are fighting a global war is often used as a way to describe the fight against COVID-19. One cannot tackle the death and devastation caused by the pandemic devoid of emotion. The...
Read MoreYellow Pad By Soliman M. Santos, Jr. These are initial notes relevant to, not a comprehensive assessment of, the new Anti-Terrorism Bill (ATB, Senate Bill No. 1083/ House Bill No. 6875) poised to be passed as “The Anti-Terrorism...
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Read MoreYellow 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 MoreBy 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 MoreYellow 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 MoreYellow 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 MoreYellow 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 MoreYellow 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...
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