Category: Economy

Change in system of governance equals prosperity? Think again

February 7, 2013February 8, 2013 benign0 28 Comments

Certain advocates of “constitutional reform” make use of two cornerstone arguments to support their position that a change in form of government will necessarily translate to an improved probability that the Philippines will prosper as a society over a given period: (a) a correlation between systems of government and evidence of prosperity in today’s nations,…

Development, Economy, Government

Philippine Economy blah-blah at the start of Year 2013

February 6, 2013July 14, 2013 benign0 14 Comments

So the economy is in the limelight again. Hmmmm…. What to say about the Philippine economy… hmmmm. What makes talking about the economy easy is that one need just highlight the same things again — that the Philippine economy is nothing more than an illusion propped up by “commercial activity” brought about by the flow…

Development, Economy, Media

Noynoy Aquino’s WEF ‘harvest’ in Davos: Where are the results?

January 27, 2013 benign0 38 Comments

The behaviour of a large complex system like the Philippine economy cannot be described using the preferred indicators of a world economic body that mainly represents the interests of the global private sector. Even less credible are people who rely on the much-vaunted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) metric as the kernel of their efforts to…

Development, Economy, Media

High traffic volume a sign of a booming economy, Noynoy says

January 18, 2013September 23, 2023 FallenAngel 62 Comments

President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III is quoted as saying that the high volume of traffic commuters face while going along EDSA is a sign of a booming economy. He did not limit his pronouncement to the high traffic volume; he also employed positive spin on the rise of the Philippine Peso, which otherwise should…

Development, Economy, Government

Travelers out of NAIA in 25 minutes? DOT misses the point in less!

January 4, 2013August 23, 2013 FallenAngel 102 Comments

Perhaps as an attempt by the Department of Tourism (DOT) to start off the 2013 tourism campaign on the right note, Tourism Assistant Secretary Benito Bengzon Jr. reportedly claimed that it takes passengers arriving at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) – dig this – only 25 minutes to complete the airport process-from disembarkation to…

Development, Economy, Government

The world ended for many Filipinos in 2012

December 30, 2012December 28, 2013 Ilda 64 Comments

After taking a short break during the Christmas season, Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino is reportedly back feeling “recharged”. It’s been a busy 2012 for the President and his allies, indeed. He has been sick quite a few times during the year and it was a sign that his health was not a hundred…

Development, Economy, Featured, Government, Politics

Occupy the sidewalk

December 22, 2012 The Miner 21 Comments

Sidewalk vendors have always been a site to behold in the panorama of Philippine society. Although we cannot claim that this phenomenon is endemic or indigenous to Filipino culture and society, the persona of the sidewalk vendor is omnipresent within and in the very fabric of Filipino society. We see these sidewalk vendors along the…

Teach me how to fishâ€¦not to dougie

December 21, 2012 The Miner 58 Comments

First he called it a â€œpro-poor budgetâ€; now he calls it an â€œempowering national budgetâ€. Read in the papers that the President calls the PhP2.006 trillion national budget â€œâ€¦an instrument to give the common man the power to control and improve his lifeâ€¦â€ I find three items in the General Appropriations Act of 2013 that…

Civics, Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

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