Category: Development

Facts and figures: President Noynoy Aquino’s promises by the numbers

July 24, 2011 benign0 6 Comments

Politicians are quick to grandstand about their achievements and their “contributions” to the development of our wretched land, the Philippines. Whenever statistics about the economy or survey results describing public sentiment is released, politicians will go on a media blitz to ensure that an association between these and themselves are implanted in the vacuous minds…

Development, Economy, Politics

An unsolicited draft of President Noynoy Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) for July 25, 2011

July 18, 2011June 8, 2012 benign0 5 Comments

My dear countrymen, members of Congress, honourable House Speaker, Senate President, and Chief Justice, ladies and gentlemen of the diplomatic corps: Today I stand before you, this 25th day of July 2011 to do three things: (1) report on what we had achieved in the last twelve months, (2) give you a summary of the…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

Do Filipinos need iron-fisted leadership?

July 8, 2011November 26, 2015 Ilda 103 Comments

Filipinos do not know what they want. In 1986, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets to rally against the late strongman, former President Ferdinand Marcos. The three-day protest eventually led to the ousting of the so-called “dictator” and alleged human rights violator. Twenty five years later, Filipinos from the Mindanao region of…

Civics, Crime, Development, Government, Politics, Society

Saudi Arabia shuts its doors to Filipino domestics

July 1, 2011 benign0 6 Comments

What exactly needs to be “clarified” between the governments of Saudi Arabia and the Philippines in the aftermath of a shutdown on any further granting of work permits to Filipino domestic workers? The announcement was reportedly made after a failure “to agree on hiring conditions imposed” by the Philippines. The stakes, as far as Filipinos…

Development, Economy, Money Talks, Society

The Philippines is one big SQUANDERED foreign investment

June 30, 2011June 30, 2011 benign0 17 Comments

So we want more foreign investment, do we? Stop to think. How much of it have we already received? Look around and take stock of what exactly it is about “the Philippines” that is of any consequence to anyone that is indigenous in origin. Indeed, the Philippines is one big foreign investment. Much if not…

Culture, Development, Economy

Without operational excellence, capital is squandered

June 29, 2011June 29, 2011 benign0 5 Comments

The grand-daddy of our culture-as-root-cause thesis, the late great Teddy Benigno, in his classic 2002 Star article Why investors avoid us: The trust factor highlighted what, at the time, was a very conservative forecast regarding China’s fortunes made in a Nomura Research Institute (NRI) study that foresaw a China that could “burgeon into the world’s…

Culture, Development, Economy

Hope for the Philippine economy lies in domestic investment and not foreign investment

June 28, 2011 benign0 13 Comments

I am undoubtedly seen as a determined critic of the administration of Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III. But that is only because the man generally personifies much of the underbelly of the Filipino psyche that I’ve made it a personal online career to highlight over the last several years. In short his character just…

Development, Economy

The Filipino Youth: where lies hope for a better Philippines in the future

June 26, 2011May 29, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

A visitor to GetRealPhilippines.com sent a letter by email dated 31 October 2005 that, in a nutshell, best describes the whole problem with our society’s regard for the youth. Here is an excerpt: we filipinos are so hypocrete. we live on lies and half truth. when I was a kid (am now 40 [years old])…

Culture, Development, Education, Society

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benign0
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