Category: Policy Reforms on Investments

POWERING THE PHILIPPINES’ COVID RECOVERY: AER Statement on the Duterte Administration’s COVID-19 Recovery Plan

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jun 4, 2020 | Columns, COVID-19, Policy Reforms on Investments, Tax Reform, Yellow Pad | 0 |

FULL STATEMENT - AER Statement on the Duterte Administration’s COVID-19 Recovery...

Bring down electricity prices and the inflation rate will go down

by Action for Economic Reforms | Oct 24, 2018 | Clean Fuels for the Poor, Columns, Policy Reforms on Investments, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Roberto Verzola A sure way to bring down prices in any market is to replace monopoly with open competition. And if that market supplies a good that almost everyone relies on, then the cascading impact of lower...

The conservative yet unconventional Governor

by Action for Economic Reforms | Oct 17, 2018 | Capital Flows, Competition Reforms, Fiscal Policy, Policy Reforms on Investments, Press Room, Tax Justice, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Nesting Espenilla is a low-key Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). He avoids the limelight, and that’s the way it should be for the head of an independent, non-political...

TRABAHO: Setting free an urgent reform

by Action for Economic Reforms | Oct 10, 2018 | Columns, Competition Reforms, Fiscal Policy, Policy Papers, Policy Reforms on Investments, Press Room, Statements, Tax Justice, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Jenina Joy Chavez The House of Representatives passed the Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High-Quality Opportunities or TRABAHO Bill in early September. The first major component of TRABAHO is the...

A lesson that Duterte must heed

by Action for Economic Reforms | Sep 10, 2018 | Columns, Fiscal Policy, Policy Issues, Policy Reforms on Investments, Press Room, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III He is a populist, and has endeared himself to the masses. He won the elections by a landslide, and till now, his political party is hard to beat. He put in place universal health...

Low-carbon path

by Action for Economic Reforms | Aug 28, 2018 | Clean Fuels for the Poor, Columns, Competition Reforms, Policy Papers, Policy Reforms on Investments, Press Room, Private Sector Participation, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Roberto Verzola A previous piece showed that our greenhouse gas reduction commitment to the Paris climate treaty meant a gradual 2.02% annual reduction in fossil-based electricity generation, for a total...

Reducing power plant carbon emissions by 70% is doable

by Action for Economic Reforms | Aug 20, 2018 | Clean Fuels for the Poor, Columns, Policy Reforms on Investments, Press Room, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Roberto Verzola My two previous pieces (BW, July 16 and July 23, 2018) discussed four flaws in the DoE’s current power development plan that led it to overestimate the country’s 2040 baseload requirements by more...

Advancing fiscal incentive reform

by Action for Economic Reforms | Aug 16, 2018 | Columns, Competition Reforms, Fiscal Policy, Policy Issues, Policy Reforms on Investments, Press Room, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III THE rationalization of fiscal incentives is a long-overdue reform. It is a necessary reform for several reasons. The current regime of incentives has resulted in the loss of huge...

The SONA: a ranking of preferences

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 31, 2018 | Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), Columns, Fiscal Policy, Mindanao Peace, Policy Issues, Policy Reforms on Investments, Press Room, Sin Tax Reforms, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Rodrigo Duterte’s 2018 State of the Nation Address (SONA) addressed a lot of issues. And depending on your values, beliefs and advocacy, one would either slam Duterte or begrudgingly...

More flaws in the DoE plan raise baseload bloat to 103%

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 24, 2018 | Clean Fuels for the Poor, Columns, Policy Reforms on Investments, Press Room, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Roberto Verzola A previous piece identified one serious flaw in the DoE’s Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) 2016-2040: the DoE still assumes that baseload plants will retain their 70% share in the electricity mix until...

Flawed DoE assumption results in baseload bloat

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 16, 2018 | Clean Fuels for the Poor, Columns, Policy Reforms on Investments, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Roberto Verzola Over the past four decades, solar photovoltaic (PV) prices have been dropping by an average of 9% per year. As a result, rooftop solar is the cheapest daytime source of electricity today in many...

Insights into the World Bank’s Insights

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jun 20, 2018 | Columns, Fiscal Policy, Policy Reforms on Investments, Press Room, Quality of Life Index, Yellow Pad | 0 |

Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III The World Bank has come out with a Philippine poverty assessment report titled Making Growth Work for the Poor (2018). It works on the assumption, now an adage, that growth is a...