Category: Economy

The Philippines is reverting back to an agrarian economy thanks to COVID-19

August 11, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

Nothing necessarily bad about agrarian societies though these get their bad rep from their association with the Third World and “underdevelopment”. Some “economists” would measure “modernisation” in terms of the proportion of the workforce employed in agriculture. As the thinking goes, a progressive shift in the workforce from farming to manufacturing and services and, therefore,…

Business, Development, Economy

COVID-19 economic collapse is the crisis the Philippines had to have!

August 7, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

Filipinos can no longer rely on their traditional gravy trains — OFWism, work outsourced from the First World, foreign investment, and foreign aid — to prop up their labour-added-value economy. Foreign workers are coming “home” by the droves, the First World is rapidly repatriating its offshore work, and governments all over the world are diverting…

Business, Economy, Government

Just What Do You mean by Essential?

April 23, 2020 ChinoF 19 Comments

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced humanity to practice isolation as an attempt to avoid infection. Government officials have advised the public to not go out except for essential business. And as a result, as webmaster Benign0 and Ilda have written, the pandemic gives us reason to pause and look at the lifestyles we’re living. Their…

Culture, Economy

COVID-19 further highlights how important it is for the Philippines to be INDEPENDENT

March 22, 2020 benign0 22 Comments

One thing the COVID-19 pandemic is teaching the world is that it is important for communities, both at local and at national levels, to be self sufficient. The drastic equalising effect of this global disaster can be felt in the accelerated dismantling of the fragile international inter-dependencies built up over decades of the “globalisation” frenzy….

Economy, Technology

Mga Umaray sa Milk Statement ni Sen. Villar, Sila ang Tunay na Walang Kaluluwang Kapitalista

January 28, 2020 P. Farol 4 Comments

Waring mga pickpocket na naipit ang daliri o akyat bahay na nahuli sa akto ang asta ng mga nambato ng sari-saring pangungutya kay Senator Cynthia Villar dahil sa pamumuna niya sa Philippine Carabao Center dahil sa mababang produksyon nito ng gatas. Paano ikanyo? Imbis na suriing mabuti ang kabuuan ng sinabi ni Senator Villar tungkol…

Economy, Government

Angkas and the #SaveAngkas activist fad are parts of the problem, not the solutions

December 22, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

The latest fashionable hashtag at the moment is #SaveAngkas. Angkas (a colloquial term for “hitch a ride”) is a motorcycle ride hailing and delivery service that is one of those modern-day jeepney-style solutions to systemic problems that could have been avoided if Filipinos exercised a bit more foresight and longer-term planning. The Philippine government is…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

Will DOTR Usec. Mark Richmund De Leon Get A Christmas Gift from Angkas?

November 3, 2019 P. Farol 1 Comment

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 anywhere. Because not everybody owns a motorcycle or would want to have one in addition the two or three cars they may own, the motorcycle…

Economy, Government

Filipinos should have a strategic plan to exploit Hong Kong’s troubles

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

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 bonanza and Manila can profit massively at the regretful but necessary expense of the erstwhile shopping mecca of their chi chi elite classes. Unlike the…

Economy, Money Talks

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