Will DOTR Usec. Mark Richmund De Leon Get A Christmas Gift from Angkas?
With the crazy heavy traffic, motorcycles seem to be the fastest way to get around Metro Manila and some times, it is the only way to get to an appointment …
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Filipinos should have a strategic plan to exploit Hong Kong’s troubles
Tough luck for Hong Kong. This is really the attitude Filipinos should be applying to their regard for the circus going on in Hong Kong. One country’s crisis is another’s …
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Rappler “economist” @JCPunongbayan is growing up!
First it was high prices and “galloping inflation” — something the Philippines’ community of snowflake “activists” screeched about. Now everybody’s panties are in a knot over crashing rice prices at …
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More labour regulation could motivate businesses to reduce reliance on cheap workers and be more INNOVATIVE
Tightened labour contracting laws is good. It will force businesses to rely less on labour and be more reliant on technology and capital solutions to improve productivity. When the process …
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The Philippines is going down a FAKE development path
The Philippines is a vulnerable society — vulnerable because, though it is resource-rich, it is almost wholly dependent on external capital for its survival. Japan and Singapore, for example, are …
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Filipinos’ addiction to OFW remittances is incompatible with economic development
Look more closely at the facts surrounding the much-vaunted stellar growth of the Philippine over the last several years and one will find the same old disturbingly-familiar drivers of that …
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The Philippines needs to gear up to exploit the US-China “trade war”!
A trade war between the United States and China presents a wealth of opportunity to the Philippines — if, of course, Filipinos are up to the challenge of seizing them. …
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Why are Chinese workers WORTH MORE than Filipino workers in the job market?
For all the noise about the growing number of Chinese workers flooding the Philippines, very few “activists” have raised this most important question of all. Why do Chinese workers attract …
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