Category: Economy

Tips PNoy should observe during #APEC2015 to prevent embarrassment for Filipinos

November 13, 2015 benign0 17 Comments

It’s simple, really. Be considerate and observe good manners, Mister President. It’s stuff we all got taught in kindergarten. It’s time to revisit good ol’ Insulares breeding in times when we are hosting important guests. So here is the first and probably most important one: Less talk about your mother. I mean, come on, would…

Economy, Lifestyle

Filipinos need to get off the loser path and onto the road to real progress

November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 benign0 22 Comments

How did the Philippines get to where it is now? It is a wretched society, unable to defend itself from foreign and natural threats, paralysed by its own enormous population, and staring at a future hobbled by a lack of the infrastructure to get it down the right road. Yet the country, over much of…

Development, Economy, Society

A Lament For OFWs

November 8, 2015 Grimwald 8 Comments

Just recently, one of my best friends has now moved to Singapore with his wife and hopes to make a decent living there as an engineer. My heart goes out to him and his wife and I hope that they have a prosperous life there together while raising their family. However, with everything that’s happened…

Mass national disruption as APEC Manila 2015 circus comes to town!

November 5, 2015November 5, 2015 benign0 11 Comments

Everything is such a huge drama in the Philippines. The coming Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) is no exception. It promises to effect immense disruption across a vast swath of Philippine society — which makes the very hosting of this forum by the Philippine government quite ironic. Economies rise and fall on the back of…

Development, Economy, Government, Lifestyle

“Don’t start a business in the Philippines”, according to BizNews Asia

October 23, 2015October 24, 2015 FallenAngel 127 Comments

The cover of the BizNews Asia, vol. 13, no. 22 reads “If you want to start a business, don’t start it in the Philippines”. This is further expounded on in a paragraph also found on the lower part of the cover page: The World Bank ranks the Philippines 95th in ease of doing business, 161st…

Economy, Government, Politics

Why the Current Philippine Republic Needs to Die

October 17, 2015 MidwayHaven 13 Comments

When President Corazon Aquino established the Fifth Philippine Republic in 1987, she set forth a new constitution that in theory would eliminate the “excesses” of previous administrations. Foremost among these was the “Martial Law” clause that, in the event that a seated President would declare it, would allow it to pass through Congress first; Post-Marcos, this was…

Charter Change, Development, Economy, Environment, Government

The Real Reason Why PNoy Does Not Want to Lower Income Tax

September 15, 2015September 16, 2015 Hector Gamboa 22 Comments

So President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy), in response to proposals by some legislators, said that he is not convinced that lowering income tax rates would be beneficial to the country. He claims that: “If we lower income tax rates, revenues will be smaller while the deficit will be wider. The widening deficit will be a negative…

Economy, Government, Politics

Pnoy: Mar Roxas Helped Yolanda Victims More Than Jojo Binay

September 12, 2015September 12, 2015 P. Farol 8 Comments

The country’s best known PR practitioner Charlie Agatep brought up what I feel is an important issue when it comes to natural calamities and the work of politicians/government functionaries. On his timeline on Facebook, Agatep posted an excerpt from an article from the Manila Bulletin where President Benigno S. Aquino III was quoted as saying…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics