Category: Yellow Pad

Implementing CREATE

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 26, 2021 | Columns, Fiscal Policy, Tax Reform, Yellow Pad | 0 |

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...

PISA, TIMSS, and quality education

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 19, 2021 | Columns, Education, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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...

Local elections, rank and political office

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 12, 2021 | Columns, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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...

PNoy and his hamburger

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 5, 2021 | Columns, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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...

Addressing vaccine hesitancy

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jun 28, 2021 | Columns, Yellow Pad | 0 |

From 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...

Opposition coalitions in Israel and the Philippines

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jun 21, 2021 | Columns, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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....

The importance of tobacco taxes for post-pandemic recovery

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jun 14, 2021 | Columns, Sin Tax Reforms, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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...

Funding education through better real property valuation

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jun 7, 2021 | Columns, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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...

Learning from Vietnam’s COVID-19 response (or, how must we face a formidable foreign invader?)

by Action for Economic Reforms | May 31, 2021 | Columns, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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...

The fear of vaccine and the role of media

by Action for Economic Reforms | May 24, 2021 | Columns, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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...

Why we need extraordinary government spending

by Action for Economic Reforms | May 17, 2021 | Columns, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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,...

Allow imports to address domestic shortage

by Action for Economic Reforms | May 10, 2021 | Columns, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW 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...