Category: Economy

Three fundamental roadblocks to improving Philippine public transport

April 26, 2011December 11, 2022 benign0 21 Comments

Solving the mass transport problem of large Philippine cities is one of those hard problems. Much of its hardness is accounted for by that inescapable fundamental nature of the poverty that defines the Filipino’s very existence — the Filipino’s habit of entering into commitments that they are inherently incapable of honouring. Such commitments are almost…

Culture, Development, Economy, Lifestyle

Channeling Filipino money to Filipino ideas: Filipinos can succeed in business!

April 18, 2011 benign0 30 Comments

Lots of people have great ideas. Unfortunately not all people with great ideas are very entrepreneurial. It remains a giant leap to get from an idea to a clear execution roadmap. The execution roadmap need not be written like a formal thesis, but it should at least demonstrate how said idea can be turned into…

Economy, Lifestyle, Society, Technology

Real advise for Filipinos desperately praying for jobs

April 5, 2011April 6, 2011 benign0 11 Comments

Joblessness is indeed a big problem in the Philippines. It is Third World labour supply on steroids — an exceedingly pathetic situation that sees the economic value of Filipino labour utterly flattened under the sheer weight of the vast numbers of warm bodies out on the streets in jeepney- and bus-loads looking for jobs. The…

Development, Economy, Education, Lifestyle, Religion

PNoy blames Arroyo but takes credit for her work in a speech in Singapore

March 11, 2011March 4, 2015 Ilda 189 Comments

Official records show that there have been 14 Philippine Presidents that preceded incumbent President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy). However, PNoy seems to be under the illusion that there were only two past Presidents before him and he takes turns referring to each one of them in his speeches depending on the occasion. When PNoy talks about…

Development, Economy, Featured, Government

Is the Philippines overpopulated or just mismanaged?

March 5, 2011August 15, 2022 Ilda 119 Comments

Is the world overpopulated? The answer to that depends on who you are asking. If you ask a capitalist, he will most definitely say no because to a capitalist, the bigger the population, the higher his bottom-line. If you ask the Church, the answer is still no because to religious leaders, we need to pro-create…

Development, Economy, Environment, Featured, Government, Lifestyle

Lessons learned from weeks spent doting upon Arab People Power

March 3, 2011 benign0 8 Comments

First we cheered on stirrings of what we described as impending “people power” Edsa-style revolutions that started in Tunisia and spread over the rest of North Africa. Quick to fancy ourselves as the doting grand-daddies of this sort of “grassroots-initiated” change movement, we tweeted, blogged, Facebook-“liked”, re-tweeted, and email-forwarded various newsbits and factoids that made…

Economy, Featured, Government, Society

Is PNoy bad for Philippine foreign relations?

February 27, 2011February 7, 2017 Ilda 106 Comments

Diplomacy. The word, according to its definition describes the “art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace making, trade, war, economics, culture, environment and human rights“. The practice…

Development, Economy, Featured, Government, Politics

Being cluey about foreign capital

January 23, 2011August 13, 2022 benign0 76 Comments

One of the key aspects of the Constitutional Reform agenda revolves around the proposal to open the Philippines to full foreign ownership of business assets and private property. It is a worthwhile option to explore as it has been known for quite some time how inept Filipinos are with creating capital indigenously and at keeping…

Charter Change, Culture, Development, Economy

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